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Re:Avoiding bot detection: How to scrape the web without get... by jjav on Monday November 01, 2021 @03:43PM (#29071972)
> None of these anti-bot providers give a shit about invading your privacy, tracking your every movements, or whatever other power fantasy that can be imagined.

There is vast amount of profit available in doing just that (see e.g. GOOG and FB market cap). Even companies that truly have no intention of exploiting data collected as a side-effect of whatever product line they do, nearly always eventually end up going for that profit line. Because passing up on more income merely due to moral considerations is too much of a temptation for a company to be able to resist in the long term.

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