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This article, and possibly the owners of the site, seem to muddle together several problems: 1. bot traffic causing infrastructure cost 2. scraping circumvent
by advisedwang 2mo ago
This article, and possibly the owners of the site, seem to muddle together several problems:
1. bot traffic causing infrastructure cost
2. scraping circumventing paying for licenses
3. the risk of hacking
- shermantanktop 2mo agoYou missed the speculated motivation: unrestricted prediction markets, which are an open and broad incentive to do whatever actions might provide a slight edge in betting. Webscraping is among the more benign things that gambling-on-anything can drive. And even that has a negative impact, as seen here. I have no idea why those sites are legal.