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When you say "That is not how HTTP works" it suggests that your claim is that anything that HTTP allows is ethically OK to do. However that is clearly a ridiculous stance, since a DDoS attack is a stream of valid HTTP requests and that's clearly not OK.

That wasn't a response made to your comment, and you are mixing two different arguments there. You guess in not correct.

So I'm left wondering what your argument actually is for why unwelcome scraping is ethically OK.

I never even suggested such an argument.

The behavior you described in the last paragraph is only deceptive from the eyes of an information and privacy surveillant state actor. Anonymity is not unethical, it is a human right.