I can’t imagine data scraping is something companies will quickly admit to, considering the legal issues involved. It was also the norm for a long time – APIs for accessing user generated data is a relatively new thing.
As for a concrete example: companies using chatGPT. A lot of useful data comes from scraping sites that don’t offer an API.
Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Maybe you’ve got a small company involved in toy buying and reselling, and they want to scrape toy postings from ebay etc. so that they can scroll through a database of different postings and sort it by price or estimated profit or whatever.