Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ronsor 129 days ago
I think they framed it this way because they don't consider scraping abuse (to be fair, neither do I, as long as it doesn't overload the site). Botting accounts for spam is clear abuse, however, so that's fair game.
1 comments

No, I consider all data collection and scraping egregious. From that perspective, LinkedIn is hypocritical when Microsoft discloses every filesystem search I do locally to bing.
Are you not scraping a site with your eyeballs when you view a site?
By that logic I can charge you for looking at me.
I agree. Maybe that logic (which is your logic) isn't very good.
You’re just making yourself look dumb by drawing invalid comparisons and an inaccurate understanding of my logic.