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by icebraining 3229 days ago
If a web server, on other other hand, willingly serves content to both a browser being operated by a human, as well as screen-scraping software, then it shouldn't try to prescribe how the screen-scraper uses that information.

That's not what was happening here. LinkedIn's server was blocking HiQ, and HiQ sued LinkedIn to prevent them from doing that.