Re:Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps
by kbenson on Friday February 01, 2019 @12:00AM
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> Somone handing you data does not remove any copyrights on this data.
Oh, I'm not making any claim that it's legal. I'm just noting that if you've decided you want to scrape and are disregarding the ToS, there are ways to make it less likely to get you blocked.
> That said, this kind of thing is detectable. If users of an application are far less likely to download common data it quickly looks odd.
In the approach I outlined, you either load the Google JS payload and use it entirely as normal (and just do something extra with the data it provides), or you don't load it at all and run entirely locally. There are things they can do, such as embed analytical code in their payload to test for certain things, but it's just a cat and mouse game at that point.
> And while that’s not conclusive, they can just look at how your application functions to see what’s going on.
Assuming it's a public application (in this case it is), and that they have reason to look at it. If it's just spiky load, where sometimes there is load and other times there isn't or it's less, that's not really indicative of something odd going on, especially if you're relatively small.
Oh, I'm not making any claim that it's legal. I'm just noting that if you've decided you want to scrape and are disregarding the ToS, there are ways to make it less likely to get you blocked.
> That said, this kind of thing is detectable. If users of an application are far less likely to download common data it quickly looks odd.
In the approach I outlined, you either load the Google JS payload and use it entirely as normal (and just do something extra with the data it provides), or you don't load it at all and run entirely locally. There are things they can do, such as embed analytical code in their payload to test for certain things, but it's just a cat and mouse game at that point.
> And while that’s not conclusive, they can just look at how your application functions to see what’s going on.
Assuming it's a public application (in this case it is), and that they have reason to look at it. If it's just spiky load, where sometimes there is load and other times there isn't or it's less, that's not really indicative of something odd going on, especially if you're relatively small.