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Good news: "Scraping is not hacking and doesn't violate the CFAA" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/eff-ninth-circuit-recent-supreme-court-decision-van-buren-does-not-criminalize-web
@TheDoctor The sites trying to bogart the data would like it to be a crime. A lot of website admins fight scraping by using #Cloudflare. What baffles me about this case is they rationalized that LinkedIn is "public" & therefore bots are "authorized", but whenever I try to view someone's LinkedIn profile I'm blocked. Visitors must login.
@TheDoctor Yet LinkedIn apparently wants to be scraped by search crawlers because search engines show me useless linkedIn pages in the results, which are then unreachable to me.
@resist1984 Why would anyone want to criminalize the scraping of publicly available data? That seems like a very weird concept.