Comment on X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its data

teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• olympicyes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • coffee_poops@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Eranziel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lol, then they would have to demonstrate that there were damages. The worst a TOS violation will get you is a ban.

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      • kometes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Bandwidth costs.

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      • coffee_poops@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Salix@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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• Kuro@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yep, would never remember on the odd occasions I would look at Twitter, then just leave the site after being promoted to login

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