Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce...
by mindslight on Friday February 03, 2023 @06:15PM
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> I think it's going to be harder for academic researchers to get institutional approval to scrape adversarially
This is a good point about what might happen, but it seems worthwhile to address and fix directly. Personally I don't see why adversarial scraping of a publicly published website should require any more ethical consideration/review than using the suggested API would. Ethical concerns should revolve around humans, not the business desires of non-human entities.
This is a good point about what might happen, but it seems worthwhile to address and fix directly. Personally I don't see why adversarial scraping of a publicly published website should require any more ethical consideration/review than using the suggested API would. Ethical concerns should revolve around humans, not the business desires of non-human entities.