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Unethically Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel With LLMs

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 21, 2024,
updated Sep 21, 2024

This is the latest from 'Linux' 'security' dot com:

How Static Residential Proxies Support Ethical Web Scraping Practices

Still pure garbage for SEO purposes.

Web scraping is a technique organizations and researchers use to extract useful information from the web. However, this method poses various ethical and technical concerns. Many websites employ anti-scraping measures, making collecting data efficiently and responsibly challenging. Further, frequent similar requests from multiple locations can arouse a system's suspicion, resulting in access being denied.

Sadly, however, it's still a growing problem on the Web and not enough people talk about it (or even notice it). Recently, Microsoft came under fire for doing it.

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