Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?
by williamdclt on Saturday May 16, 2020 @09:29AM
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Be careful with that: it very probably goes against all sorts of TOS and can get you in trouble
Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?
by cddotdotslash on Saturday May 16, 2020 @09:57AM
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A court recently ruled [1] that LinkedIn had to allow scraping, but it has to be public data (i.e. you can't log into your Facebook account and then scrape all your friends' pages).
[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/victory-ruling-hiq-v-l...
Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?
by williamdclt on Sunday May 17, 2020 @08:35AM
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It's not the scraping itself that I would be worried about, it's using this data to create what could be seen as a competitor (especially if you make it commercial). For a lot of these websites, traffic is essentially money: diverting users to another website using their own content would be very badly received
Seems like a fun project, so I may start planning it when I have time.