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Of course, Facebook wants to make it sound like scraping is illegal, when it generally isn't. But account hijacking and mass-creation of accounts just to access private pages are clear violations of the Facebook and Instagram ToS, so they surely can sue for that.
Since when do you get sued for breaching TOS?
"Scraping attacks" LOL
HN is hypocritical - most commenters here are against this because "Meta bad," but at the same time, most commenters wouldn't want their posts shared privately amongst friends to be scraped and made available publicly.
Is the scraper to blame here, or the friend?
Of course, Facebook wants to make it sound like scraping is illegal, when it generally isn't. But account hijacking and mass-creation of accounts just to access private pages are clear violations of the Facebook and Instagram ToS, so they surely can sue for that.
Since when do you get sued for breaching TOS?
"Since when do I get sued for taking too many free samples from Costco?" -> "Since you started taking millions of them to resell"
HN is hypocritical - most commenters here are against this because "Meta bad," but at the same time, most commenters wouldn't want their posts shared privately amongst friends to be scraped and made available publicly.
Data harvesting is moral for me, but not for thee.
It's their platform. Do you really want some random companies scraping your facebook and instagram posts?
Thought experiment: if you want to keep control over your data, try something radical: don't hand it to Meta/FB/IG at all
(Full disclosure, I'm neither on FB nor IG)
Of course, Facebook wants to make it sound like scraping is illegal, when it generally isn't. But account hijacking and mass-creation of accounts just to access private pages are clear violations of the Facebook and Instagram ToS, so they surely can sue for that.
Violation of ToS does not mean a violation of the law.
Does violating a website's TOS meant your accessing it beyond your authority, making it a violation of the US's Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?