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Re:Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms by VWWHFSfQ on Monday April 18, 2022 @04:57PM (#31076434)
> a very unique type of site if bots make up the majority of traffic

Pretty much Twitter and the majority of such websites.

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Re:Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms by YPCrumble on Monday April 18, 2022 @05:13PM (#31076631)
Do you really believe bots make up a significant amount of Twitter’s operating cost? Like I said they’re just accessing cached tweets and are rate limited. How can the bot usage possibly be more than a small part of twitter’s operating cost?
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