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by x3sphere 820 days ago
The irony is Meta have a draconian stance against site scrapers, and have been known to sue over it.

Yet they go and do this. Which is much worse than just scraping public pages.
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nycdatasci 820 days ago
Exactly. Here's a great example of them criticizing NYU for researching political influence & advertising on the Meta platform: "Research Cannot Be the Justification for Compromising People’s Privacy" https://about.fb.com/news/2021/08/research-cannot-be-the-jus...
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immibis 818 days ago
That's why Cory calls it "adversarial interoperability". All's fair in love and war, and all that. They play dirty, so should we.
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