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		digitcatphd on Jan 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The State of Web Scraping 2022 Good take, IMO ethically speaking we should not penalize scrapers themselves but do so based on their use. Scraping Facebook to make a clone of profiles shouldn’t be held to the same scrutiny of scraping Facebook to do an internal analysis of user demographics for research purposes.

ForHackernews on Jan 12, 2022 [–]

Why should either be discouraged?

zamadatix on Jan 12, 2022 | | [–]

Cloning profiles is what seems likely wrong to me but I'm not sure how that being done via scraping or not should matter.

antonf on Jan 13, 2022 | | [–]

With cloned profiles (or any data obtained and shared without your consent) it will be harder for you to exercise your right to be forgotten, for example.

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