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		ct0 on April 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms Consider that scrapers may be far less interested in you as the individual than they are regarding your input into the aggregated data points of you and those like you.

altdataseller on April 18, 2022 | [–]

The scraper example in this case HiQ had a product that tracked employee profile changes to predict employee churn.

So they were specifically interested in you, personally not the aggregate

xboxnolifes on April 18, 2022 | [–]

That's the same argument for all major internet tracking cookies. I don't think that's going to convince this site's userbase.

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