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Re:What are the legal issues around web scraping? by zepolen on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @03:55PM (#24425217)
100% legal.

If you're Google.

Re:What are the legal issues around web scraping? by hellweaver666 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @04:01PM (#24425275)
So true... so many sites have a clause in their T&C's saying that scraping is not permitted but they're perfectly happy to let Google do it. Google should totally blackout any site with this kind of garbage in their T&C's just to raise awareness and get people to remove it.
Re:What are the legal issues around web scraping? by netsectoday on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @04:16PM (#24425429)
The fun part about being Google is that you can cheat and bypass your own reCAPTCHAs!!!

It's brilliant that the world's largest operator of web-scraping bots also develops the most-used bot-protection plugin (for reasons).