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Re:Avoiding Webscraping Throttling Using Python and Tor as a... by ChrisSD on Saturday July 13, 2019 @05:07PM (#20430169)
I think many people aren't going to stress too much about breaking a site's T&C because a) nobody ever reads them and b) they're practically unenforceable in many places.

However, I do agree that people should care more about the ethics of web scrapping.

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Re:Avoiding Webscraping Throttling Using Python and Tor as a... by ohithereyou on Sunday July 14, 2019 @08:57AM (#20433126)
>I think many people aren't going to stress too much about breaking a site's T&C because a) nobody ever reads them and b) they're practically unenforceable in many places.

Tell that to Aaron Swartz.

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