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0 pointslopmotr8y ago0 comments

How is it any worse than what the Internet Archive does normally when it scrapes sites itself? Most sites aren't able to stop scrapers the way FB could.

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oneweekwonder8y ago· 1 in thread

Have you seen Internet Archive try to monetize unauthorized scraped data? Only to release/leak it a DECADE later under the facade of free information.

lopmotrOP8y ago

Internet Archive would be sleazy if it started out by selling data before becoming what it is now? I don't see that the history of the company matters.

jonhendry188y ago

tbh I'm not crazy about some of the things the Internet Archive does, either.

What bugs me about Profile Engine is that there are probably a lot of people who realized their mistake of leaving their profiles wide open on Facebook, and tightened up the restrictions, whose details might still be wide open in this dataset without them even realizing.

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