A food chain company banned my friend, when she is trying to scrap some data for nlp😥

proxies to the rescue!

@stop mac are only relevant in the local network.

Once you got any router on the way the mac address is dropped.

@Voxera i thought that she was in a wifi off this company.

Collecting data without permission is clean breach of ToS for lots of companies.

+ It is unethical.

@vocuzi If it's publicly available on the internet, then it's free game.

@datawraith it's not in many cases

https://benbernardblog.com/web-scra...

@datawraith Of course but any company/server engineer can have plenty of reasons not to allow it, it can cause high load if you scrape like hell, trigger anti abuse systems and so on.

@vocuzi The main issues raised are using the data without attribution and causing a DOS on a website. If you publish data about your business publicly, you can't turn around and say it's no fair someone is using that for competitive advantage.

Scraping public data for private use (not republishing etc) isn't something prosecutable as long as you're not causing service interruptions.

@datawraith try following the post again