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Musk's X Corp loses lawsuit against Israeli data-scraping company (2024)
- Markoff 22d agoI fail to see how is data scraping company different from Nitter instances.
- andsoitis 22d agoThe distinction is scraping public pages vs. circumventing access controls. Nitter is accused of: using an unofficial API, routing traffic through nitter servers, requiring operators to supply real X accounts, using session tokens, circumventing X’s API restrictions/rate limits, and then publishing the resulting material. Still not a slam dunk for X, but keep in mind that their actual goal is to shut down nitter and can do so by increasing nitter’s legals costs.