X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its data
X/Twitter has updates its official Terms of Service to prohibit third parties from scraping or crawling its data.
But what if you do? Will you get caught?
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I’m pretty sure both parties must agree to the terms before they legally bind anyone so wouldn’t this just apply to logged in users?
Accessing the website is often viewed as accepting the terms, so that wouldn't hold up. Not that they'd have a legal standpoint on the issue.
Accessing the website is often viewed as accepting the terms
The scraping bot can't read the terms
But even if it could, it wouldn't give a damn :-)
By reading this message you agree to my terms that I'm really cool
Lol and you username
How do you read the terms without accessing their website?
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