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Re:Taking action against scraping for hire by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Thursday July 07, 2022 @10:17AM (#32014418)
If simp is supposed to be short for simpleton, you might want to consider how simple your thoughts are.
Re:Taking action against scraping for hire by DaveFr on Thursday July 07, 2022 @10:20AM (#32014461)
Re:Taking action against scraping for hire by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Thursday July 07, 2022 @10:30AM (#32014587)
I can also link to a source that's going to be biased in my favor: https://www.etymonline.com/word/simp
Re:Taking action against scraping for hire by jjoonathan on Thursday July 07, 2022 @11:06AM (#32015039)
> 1903

> 1640s

Lol, no. I'm using the definition from this century:

> Someone who does way too much for a person they like

Re:Taking action against scraping for hire by EGreg on Thursday July 07, 2022 @10:20AM (#32014454)
What a pretty picture capitalism is.

“Give us all your data for free.” “They ‘trust me’, dumb fucks.”

https://www.esquire.com/uk/latest-news/a19490586/mark-zucker...

Proceeds to build entire business on this data…

“You can’t scrape us!”

LinkedIn tried this:

https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/court-rules-that-da...

And it’s not like capitalist enterprises even try to be consistent in their legal complaints:

https://9to5mac.com/2022/04/14/apple-calls-out-meta-for-hypo...