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I agree with the sentiment, but the line between read-and-record permission vs read-and-brun permission is really vague here. Scraping is exercising the right to read is the right to download in an automated manner on behalf of a user. Scraping bans (not limited to FB) are more of a commercial practice rather than caring about user consent/privacy imo.

Personally I don't think access should be given based on assumption of the query's intention (daily browsing vs scraping data for analysis authorized by someone), but like r/w/x and user group, i.e. if you can view, then you can view and record. Otherwise either no access granted, or burn after read.




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