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ChuckMcM • yesterday at 10:57 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

No, and it's funny that the "data" they scrape for "free"[1] they forbid you from reselling. It is entirely unclear to me if this is even enforceable.I mean who are the parties in this transaction? Two programs? If you're responsible for what your programs do why aren't AI folks going to jail for violating CFAAA? Hmmm? It is all kind of screwed up.

When we were running Blekko we had a lot of people who were attempting to crawl WordPress sites for plugins that had unpatched vulnerabilities or shopping cart packages with the same. I'm really curious though about how Cloudflare is monetizing this.

[1] We all know its not free to support the crawling traffic of a web scraper.