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

• 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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    • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Peanuts.

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      • kometes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s still a billionaire suing you for those peanuts.

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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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