[breischl]

Why would they crack down on this? It's not much different than what those companies are already doing - it's just that they strip-mine your data and sell it to advertisers instead of landlords.

If anything, I would expect them to buy that startup, or build a competing product, rather than just shutting it down entirely.

[niftich]

But that's the point, isn't it? It's fair game if FB does it to their own data, but if they're being scraped by a company that makes the news, they might decide to revoke their API keys or otherwise use technical or legal ways to limit their access.