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X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its data
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this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2023
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I’m pretty sure both parties must agree to the terms before they legally bind anyone so wouldn’t this just apply to logged in users?
Accessing the website is often viewed as accepting the terms, so that wouldn't hold up. Not that they'd have a legal standpoint on the issue.
The scraping bot can't read the terms
But even if it could, it wouldn't give a damn :-)
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Lol and you username
How do you read the terms without accessing their website?