Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions(niemanlab.org)
231 points by DeepLogin 7 days ago | 63 comments
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HN Discussion:
  • ~Meta already scrapes websites regardless of permissions, so terms are irrelevant
  • ↑Businesses and users should abandon Facebook/Meta due to abusive terms
  • ↑Meta is predictably unethical, confirming the article's warning
  • •Robots.txt is unreliable; technical countermeasures are needed against bots
  • ↑Related coverage shows this is part of a broader pattern of Meta exploiting TOS