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Re:Facebook shuts out NYU academics’ research on political ads by danuker on Monday August 09, 2021 @05:10AM (#28114205)
You are right, this is scraping. But I argue it is manual scraping - the data gets transferred even in the case of a regular user, just not saved.

As far as I interpret it, only automated scraping is against the ToS:

https://www.facebook.com/apps/site_scraping_tos_terms.php

> You may not access or collect data from our Products using automated means (without our prior permission) or attempt to access data you do not have permission to access.

https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/update

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