@skilledtothegills to TechnologyEnglish • 1 year agoX updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its datastackdiary.comexternal-linkmessage-square50arrow-up1361arrow-down122file-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1339arrow-down1external-linkX updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its datastackdiary.com@skilledtothegills to TechnologyEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square50file-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish26•1 year agoI’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?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•edit-21 year agoAccessing 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.
minus-square@NeoNachtwaechterlinkEnglish16•1 year ago 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 :-)
minus-square👁️👄👁️linkfedilinkEnglish12•1 year agoBy reading this message you agree to my terms that I’m really cool
minus-squareTheEntitylinkfedilink8•1 year agoHow do you read the terms without accessing their website?
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.
The scraping bot can’t read the terms
But even if it could, it wouldn’t give a damn :-)
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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?