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orange999

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    Comment #49487866

    X lost data scraping lawsuits against both Bright Data and and the Center for Countering Digital Hate. Meta also lost a data scraping lawsuit against Bright Data. Based on these pa…

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    Comment #49441581

    Old Reddit is posts from before something like 2009. You now have to login to view Old Reddit. https://old.reddit.com/login/?reason=lor2&dest=https%3A%2F%2... It's not that importa…

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    Comment #49441538

    Twitter's been the worst about forcing you to log in. Before Elon, Twitter would give him some login reminders roughly every 5-10 minutes if you viewed the site while logged out. I…

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    XCancel also down, at least for time being

    Message on xcancel website: "On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel. The service XCancel is stopped unt…

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    Comment #49440671

    XCancel is a different website, but they just put up a notice literally a few minutes ago saying that they're also shutting down until they get legal advice. For the past few hours…

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    Comment #49440593

    "For the forseeable future" doesn't sound very good. It's a vague phrase, but it usually isn't used to describe something that will change next week or even next month. "For the ti…

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    Comment #49439251

    You really are the owner of all the posts who make online. When you post on X, you grant X a license to display your posts, but you still have the copyright to your posts. Same thi…

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    Comment #49438365

    Right now, I can do about two searches on xcancel before it gives me the "instances have been rate limited" message. Then if I completely close out of my web browser, clear my web …

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    Comment #49438188

    A similar case Musk filed against an Israeli data scraping firm already got laughed out of court. https://www.reuters.com/legal/musks-x-corp-loses-lawsuit-aga... But I guess the ni…