• foggy@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Why wouldnt they? It’s totally legal to write up something that visits pages in a genuine browser and takes all the content from the page source.

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      2 years ago

      This attitude right here is my point. Thanks for unintentionally making my point for me ;)

      legal =/= right

      I’m so tired of people thinking the boundaries of the law are the boundaries of whats socially acceptable; it isn’t. The boundary of laws is where we get so fed up with you that we arrest your ass. the grey are in the middle where you are a shit human but not illegal, is not a place to brag about being.

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        2 years ago

        I was intentionally making your point!

        And the boundary of laws, where fines are the punishment, is simply wealth.

        If breaking a law whose punishment is a fine earns me more than the fine sets me back, then it’s a no brainier, it’s profit.

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      2 years ago

      Not if there’s a EULA forbidding it. That’s part of the reason for robot.txt. it’s sort of the agreement bots have to pass through versus the one a person sees.