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by the_mitsuhiko 970 days ago
> You may not use the services or Vercel's infrastructure for proxying, scraping

I think that's pretty clear cut then.
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cldellow 970 days ago
Looking at archive.org, I think this was only added in their most recent May 1, 2023 TOS update.

He might be the reason it now exists in the TOS. :)

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yegle 970 days ago
I just realized that archive.org might also in violation of Vercel's ToS given its ability to bypass paywall.
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SahAssar 970 days ago
Why would they care? They are not hosted on Vercel.
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randombits0 970 days ago
Since the service alters the data before delivery, a strong argument can be made that it’s not a proxy per se. Say I did something similar with the goal of assisting vision-impaired users. That’s not just a proxy.

It’s the weekend. He’ll talk to them on Monday.

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xp84 969 days ago
> a strong argument can be made that it’s not a proxy per se.

I suppose, although lots of proxies make changes.

Either way, he should probably change the URL that it uses if he intends to argue it's not a proxy of any kind. ;) I still have a tab open with an article, and the URL is:

  https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww...
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