They are completely in the right to block you though, you're not the owner of that data, you might be breaking their TOS.
In Europe, if the company is actually following the law, in theory yes.
> They are completely in the right to block you though, you're not the owner of that data, you might be breaking their TOS.
IANAL, but AIUI that's definitely not true in the United States and I suspect similar ideas hold elsewhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn
- GDPR doesn't require it be a convenient export. Users want to paste a link on my site, a click a button, and have it magically appear. Not fill out a form, dump their entire account and sift through that.
- I never opined on the validity of blocking bots
- I never opined on if it's breaking their TOS
Abuse implies a harmfulness. Giving users a quick import option from already public data isn't harmful.
They’re not necessarily in the right to block you, if you’re the data subject or acting on their behalf.
I've used their product many times actually, and I'm shocked on Hacker News of all places no one's thinking of anything besides abuse. How often is it useful to get information from a webpage and apply it in a new context? Then think of how often said webpage is behind a Cloudflare bot detector.