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Re:Oracle’s Java 11 trap by vbezhenar on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @10:29AM (#18076267)
How do you automate that? You need some kind of cookie to download JDK and you're getting it by clicking a button. The only way to automate it is to simulate "agree" click.
Re:Oracle’s Java 11 trap by yebyen on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @10:46AM (#18076451)
I'm not saying I'd write an "I Agree" bot, but I've certainly written scrapers of comparable or greater complexity, and I'd be quite surprised if there was nobody that did this.

If you haven't written a bot, but you habitually download the JRE/JDK from Oracle's website, accepting the license manually each time, is there really a difference? How many people are rereading the license each time they do this? I would guess the number of people that do this is roughly a rounding error above 0.

Re:Oracle’s Java 11 trap by cbsmith on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @11:01AM (#18076632)
Writing an "I Agree" bot without checking out what the license was...
Re:Oracle’s Java 11 trap by posterboy on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:44PM (#18079539)
Entering a contract without checking out who the customer was ...
Re:Oracle’s Java 11 trap by LaGrange on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @11:38AM (#18077021)
Curl lets you keep a cookie jar around, for example, so yes, it's pretty simple. It's also a terrible idea, but doesn't seem to stop people.
Re:Oracle’s Java 11 trap by repolfx on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @12:14PM (#18077450)
You'd have to update the URL anyway because the v8 JDK hasn't changed, from what I remember. So those scripts wouldn't be affected.