[codesink]

They don't like scrapers, they don't even allow links to their website without permission.

From their TOS:

"5. Links to this website. You may not establish and/or operate links to this website without the prior written consent of Ryanair."

[gergles]

Well, looks like HN is about to be sued into the ground. It was nice hanging out with you fine folks.

[toddmorey]

That's fairly standard legalese for large companies. I'm not saying it makes any sense, I'm just saying I've seen it a lot. I believe this is an attempt to lay some groundwork to support the removal of links from sites that you don't want any corporate association with.

[nekojima]

Hopefully pg will remove the link, so HN isn't associated with Ryanair. ;-)

[coin]

The entire web is based off linking. If they don't want linking, then they shouldn't use HTML and HTTP. "HT" stands for Hypertext https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext

[nekojima]

If you do link to their site, what can they do? Redirect to 404 or home page for external links?

[zokier]

Sue you?