Is it possible that they offloaded the scraping to a different company to avoid direct litigation now theyre out in the open? To say “we didn’t scrape your website, and you can’t prove it.”
Like DDG, Ecosia, Qwant use Bing for their data Or how feds buy data from data brokers. Outsource the dirty job like every tech company does and shift the blame if caught doing something unlawful.
It seems they are trying to garner some positive PR after they scraped through everything without anyone noticing.
Why would they be concerned about litigation? As far as I know, scraping is completely legal in most/all countries (including the US, which I’m more familiar with and they’re headquartered out of), as long as you’re respecting copyright and correctly handling PII (which they claim to be making an effort on).
Is it possible that they offloaded the scraping to a different company to avoid direct litigation now theyre out in the open? To say “we didn’t scrape your website, and you can’t prove it.”
Like DDG, Ecosia, Qwant use Bing for their data Or how feds buy data from data brokers. Outsource the dirty job like every tech company does and shift the blame if caught doing something unlawful.
It seems they are trying to garner some positive PR after they scraped through everything without anyone noticing.
Why would they be concerned about litigation? As far as I know, scraping is completely legal in most/all countries (including the US, which I’m more familiar with and they’re headquartered out of), as long as you’re respecting copyright and correctly handling PII (which they claim to be making an effort on).