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Re:Show HN: Till – Unblock and scale your web scrapers, with... by Doctor_Fegg on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @08:59AM (#28060494)
Sure, but Till/DataHen appears to have a host of measures in place to ignore that "redirect".
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Re:Show HN: Till – Unblock and scale your web scrapers, with... by capableweb on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @09:07AM (#28060567)
Yes, how are they supposed to know if the "redirect" is good or not? Facebook would helpfully redirect you to their Terms and Conditions, something you definitely should be able to ignore and scrape your data til your heart is content anyways.

Similarly to HTTP, the tool does not decide if usage is "nice" or "evil", only the user with their use case decides that.

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