It's wild that people are arguing that their friend list should belong exclusively to facebook and not, you know, to them and their friends.

>the only companies who are scared of scraping are the ones whose business models...<snip whatever other nonsense followed>

This is just patently false. There is an expense incured by scraping. There is no benefit to a host providing the data from those scrapers. My logs are full of various bots that pull data from my webhost that costs me money to serve. I run various sites that do not serve ads. I do not include any 3rd party tracking. They're just simple sites that I pay for out of my own pocket because that what I've chosen to do. Nothing shady about any of it.

It's just sad that your own personal feelings towards scraping prevents you from being able to accept that there are people with views other than your own.

Hey, I totally accept people have views other than my own. I just disagree with them.

It seems extremely weird that you’d want to publish content, but then get mad that people are using the thing that you published. But you do you.

How is that weird? I publish on my site to have people visit my site. I don't publsh for people to take my data and do what they will without attribution for where they got the data. How that makes no sense to others has me saying please don't do you because you are being not considerate to others