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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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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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How do you read the terms without accessing their website?