On: Bringing Craigslist Back

[saurik]

Google definitely tries to protect their data: if you try to scrape any of their APIs, whether it be for Maps, +, or Search, you will find yourself rapidly hitting quotas. They are very good about denying access to things that don't look like humans, and in cases where the data was extracted using horrendously indirect means (Bing) they resorted to public shaming.

[stcredzero → saurik]

Then what I say applies to them too.

Ultimately, no one is entitled to keep succeeding. Whoever does the best by the users will succeed.