Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool

Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by amelius on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @11:57AM (#17707767)

> heck, they even specifically instruct browsers and proxies to cache a lot of their content.

Solution: implement the scraper as a proxy that forwards the HTML, but also saves the user-authored content.

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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by jlarocco on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @08:04PM (#17712079)

Sorry to pick on you, but this kind of "solution" is childish and misses the point. The problem is with the law, and the solution is to make the law better. Breaking the law in new ways will only end up wasting more time in court.

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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by paulie_a on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @01:08PM (#17708439)

I always find antiscraping solutions cute. They are trivial to beat.

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