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by derefr 2716 days ago
Right. I once worked for a company that was trying to perform a business “matchmaking” service. We considered, as part of the implementation possibility-space, scraping people’s connections from LinkedIn in order to enhance our results. But LinkedIn has many advanced anti-scraping heuristics in their backend; this is just one of many. So we scrapped that option (before ever getting around to considering the ethics of it.)