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Re:Show HN: Instagram-scraper – Scrape instagram photos by t... by ta1234567890 on Sunday June 24, 2018 @10:10AM (#17386612)
It sucks that the same companies that are trying to have scraping be ilegal, do massive scraping on their end, many times deceiving the users whose data they are scraping.

FB and LinkedIn both scrape contacts (and who knows what else), from their users email accounts (and surely lots of other darker sources as well). Pretty much all of Google's search engine's content is scraped from other websites.

Re:Show HN: Instagram-scraper – Scrape instagram photos by t... by daybreaker2 on Sunday June 24, 2018 @01:47PM (#17387466)
"But you agreed to this scraping when you signed the terms and conditions"

I agree with you, but technically that argument is true

And as for Google, in theory a robots.txt would block their scraper.