On: So you want to scrape like the big boys (2021)

[flir]

Yeah, it's as unsympathetic framing of my position as I can offer.

But it's basically the same question as adblockers: Can I do what I want with the 1's and 0's on my own machine?

I'm not going to accept that I owe anyone a business model.

[blantonl → flir]

I'm not going to disagree with your use case here.

But I'm going to assume that you have some level of a conscious and you don't really mean you could give 3 shits about someone else's hard work so you can have some satisfaction at home. Because at face value that's exactly what you said.

[flir → blantonl]

No, I think that's fair. Unsympathetic framing, but not inaccurate. It's that whole "information wants to be free" thing.

[flir → blantonl]

BTW, kudos for presenting your point of view in a hostile forum and holding your own. I should have said that up front.