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dismalaftoday at 2:28 PM1 replyview on HN

Search engines "modify" it ie. show snippets + direct to the actual site.

In general fair use pretty much always requires it to be transformative and/or point to the source. Simply scraping it to prevent people from going to X isn't free use in any definition I've heard.


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gosub100today at 2:46 PM

Remember ~10 years ago when Google had "cached" versions of the websites? I believe they removed that feature for this reason.