starbreaker, 22 days ago

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cory, 22 days ago

@starbreaker capitalism (or money) — it's trite but it's true. The legal system and outcomes are going to go to the folks with the money to bend them.

jake4480, 22 days ago

@cory it was the pandemic. Had to be. Made scraping seem fine. It's the only explanation I can think of 😂🤣😂🤣

cory, 22 days ago

@jake4480 it's totally fine? Copyright is only for them anyways.

jake4480, 22 days ago

@cory 🤮😂

artlung, 22 days ago

@cory Yes, and... I wish my memory were better - I could pinpoint when web scraping became bad... for a long beautiful time mashups were really exciting (mash a mapping service to a photo sharing service plus a tag and you see something new) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_(web_application_hybrid)

cory, 22 days ago

@artlung oh yeah, I get that if it’s in the service of being fun and transformative — this is purely exploitative and it’s infuriating to watch.

artlung, 22 days ago

@cory And every killed, abandoned, or deprecated, throttled API kills a mashup.

cory, 22 days ago

@artlung yeah — it’s hard to trust building anything on any of these platforms.