I don't see this as scraping, actually. They're taking part of the content from a page and displaying it in their search results. They do that with the site's title tag and meta description tag.
I would be more concerned about the Google cache (for scraping) rather than a Featured Snippet.
Go ahead and get a featured snippet (or earn one) and you'll see the massive traffic increase and trust your site will get.
If you're concerned about them scraping, really, then go ahead and just block Googlebot from indexing the site.
> Go ahead and get a featured snippet (or earn one) and you'll see the massive traffic increase and trust your site will get.
According to the article which we are supposedly discussing, the site in question got its traffic reduced by half after the snippet was added to the Google search results.
I would be more concerned about the Google cache (for scraping) rather than a Featured Snippet.
Go ahead and get a featured snippet (or earn one) and you'll see the massive traffic increase and trust your site will get.
If you're concerned about them scraping, really, then go ahead and just block Googlebot from indexing the site.