On Tuesday, eBay updated its User Agreement to explicitly ban third-party “buy for me” agents and AI chatbots from interacting […]
Category: web scraping
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The role of web scraping in data gatekeeping environments [Q&A]
Web scraping has the power to help innovators collect data, which can then be used in a number of ways, […]
New solution gives real-time insight into bot traffic
AI-driven bot traffic has surged in the past year, often they scrape content to serve their operator’s needs only without […]
Lawsuit: Reddit caught Perplexity “red-handed” stealing data from Google results
“Unable to scrape Reddit directly, they mask their identities, hide their locations, and disguise their web scrapers to steal Reddit […]
The rise of the ‘gray bots’ targeting websites for data
We all know about good bots like search engine crawler bots, SEO bots, and customer service bots. And we know […]