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Re:Taking action against scraping for hire by stickfigure on Thursday July 07, 2022 @12:23PM (#32015989)
The users agreed to share their data with everyone that uses Instagram. Because that's how the site works.
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Re:Taking action against scraping for hire by kube-system on Thursday July 07, 2022 @12:27PM (#32016053)
There’s an important difference between technically consenting and informed consent.

Given what I know about the bot problem on Instagram, I would imagine many people have been tricked into sharing their private profiles with scraping bots. Many bots are copying real people’s profiles and then spamming their friends with follow requests. It’s highly effective and gives these bots access to private profiles.

Fooling people is fraudulent, period.

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