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Re:Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public pro... by AJ007 on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:25AM (#21386814)
After the recent LinkedIn scraping court rulings, it seems Twitter should be legally scrapable. Twitter is largely public content submitted by their users, which Twitter does not own. It’s plausible this is why Instagram removed public access.
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Re:Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public pro... by masukomi on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @12:06PM (#21388706)
yes, twitter should be legally scrapable.

however, no-one but google actually has the horsepower to do it. You'll be playing an arms race with their devOps team if you try at scale, because they'll say you're degrading service and that IS illegal.

so, while it's a nice legal victory, it's a moot one for things like twitter.

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