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		altdataseller on April 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms Does the ruling make it illegal to block scrapers?

postalrat on April 19, 2022 [–]

Doubt it. And it should never be illegal to attempt to block scrapers. Many sites do try.

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