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Web scraping is the process of extracting data from websites using automated tools and software. This technique can be incredibly valuable for entrepreneurs because it allows gathering information ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...

Cloudflare, a major internet infrastructure company, has accused AI startup Perplexity of secretly scraping data from websites that clearly said “no.” According to Cloudflare, Perplexity has been ...

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Web scraping has been used to extract data from websites almost from the time the World Wide Web was born. In the early days, scraping was mainly done on static pages – those with known elements, tags ...

Meta has routinely fought data scrapers, but it also participated in that practice itself — if not necessarily for the same reasons. Bloomberg has obtained legal documents from a Meta lawsuit against ...

One year after Meta sued a data-scraping company, a federal judge this week threw out Meta’s breach-of-contract claim because the defendant obtained only public data from Facebook and Instagram. Meta ...

Meta said it’s suing “scraping-for-hire” service Voyager Labs for allegedly using fake accounts, proprietary software, and a sprawling network of IP addresses to surreptitiously collect massive ...