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by bmpafa 2946 days ago
(GP here) re: the second part, I guess I consider most scraping 'unwelcome'

To the first part: I would characterize certain scraping, usually behind an authentication wall, as malicious--though admittedly that's not the right word. An example would be scraping Facebook profiles to build a marketing list.

So, by 'non malicious,' i mostly mean 'publicly available data'