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Re:The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing ou... by vermilingua on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @08:15AM (#22534742)
This would be impossible to maintain. Facebook regularly changes the layout of pages, and mangles the DOM to defeat adblocking, and also likely take anti scraping measures.
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Re:The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing ou... by amelius on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @08:21AM (#22534769)
Yes, but are you familiar with the tool Youtube-DL, which is open-source, runs on Linux, and allows users to download content from youtube? This tool is very useful, and is constantly being updated after changes on YouTube that break the tool. If the tool doesn't work, you simply invoke it with the "-U" flag and it updates itself. So far, this tool has not failed me.

I think a similar approach could be taken by this scraping library, though I admit it would be a lot of work to maintain it.

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Re:The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing ou... by kodablah on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @09:45AM (#22535382)
There are other approaches like accessibility APIs and text selection based on positioning and visibility.
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