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In Reddit's case data scraping is soon to be against the Terms of Service (which is already the case for Twitter), which will earn you a Cease and Desist if you try to make a business off the data.

>>minima+(OP)
Then don't sign in? See the LinkedIn legal precident, ToS only applies to scrapers if the scraper had to 'click' the agree button in order to sign up.

>>sebzim+h3
You're still going to get a Cease and Desist.

You might have better odds in court with a precedent but you'll still be out legal fees.

>>minima+w4
So the AI companies secretly scraping the data and without producing a direct attribution or affiliation are precisely the ones unaffected by this, meanwhile devs trying to make complementary tooling (and thus fully public who they are and thus targets of C&D’s) are negatively impacted.

What a lovely model.