> but in almost all cases I find Internet scraping to be unethical and downright malicious.
The Web (you said the "Internet", but you meant the Web) was not envisioned to be a commercial space. Your statement is antithetical to the original idea of the open Web. It's when the MBAs joined the party circa 2k and decided to profit out of it that all of these confused and wrong opinions about what the Web should be arose and that lead to the situation today. Your statement is a vast display of zero historical context. MBAs are obviously not very concerned with history. They just want to protect their own little turd for their own little profit and vanity, which is why they now put it behind a paywall, JS, and anti-bot proxies.
The Web (you said the "Internet", but you meant the Web) was not envisioned to be a commercial space. Your statement is antithetical to the original idea of the open Web. It's when the MBAs joined the party circa 2k and decided to profit out of it that all of these confused and wrong opinions about what the Web should be arose and that lead to the situation today. Your statement is a vast display of zero historical context. MBAs are obviously not very concerned with history. They just want to protect their own little turd for their own little profit and vanity, which is why they now put it behind a paywall, JS, and anti-bot proxies.