Yep, would never remember on the odd occasions I would look at Twitter, then just leave the site after being promoted to login
Comment on X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its data
teft@startrek.website 9 months ago
If it’s publicly accessible it’s scrape-able. He already tried to make tweets not publicly accessible and look how long that lasted.
Kuro@lemm.ee 9 months ago
olympicyes@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s not even clear that it’s illegal to scrape publicly available data, so I don’t know what the TOS would be enforcing.
coffee_poops@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
It didn’t have to be illegal for them to sue you for violating its policies. It would be a civil suit for damages.
Eranziel@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Lol, then they would have to demonstrate that there were damages. The worst a TOS violation will get you is a ban.
kometes@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Bandwidth costs.
coffee_poops@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Unfortunately, they have more money to blow on legal fees. The threat of a suit is enough to keep most perks from fucking around and finding out.
Salix@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Would it be violating policy if the scrapper only took the public data and never actually signed the ToS since they didn’t make an account?