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X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its data (stackdiary.com)
submitted 1 year ago by skilledtothegills@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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But what if you do? Will you get caught?

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[โ€“] teft@startrek.website 113 points 1 year ago (10 children)

If it's publicly accessible it's scrape-able. He already tried to make tweets not publicly accessible and look how long that lasted.

[โ€“] Kuro@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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