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by ftyhbhyjnjk 1444 days ago
Scraping publicly shared data should actually be made legal. It's "public" data.

These companies themselves scrape entire internet. How come facebook content lands up in google search? Is that not scraping? Facebook also runs it's own scrapers over internet. What about those?

It's simple: a user choosing to share their data publicly "is" public data and NOT facebook's property. Fuck zuckerberg! The asshole.