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		jdc on April 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Best practices for ethical web scraping? It seems to me that you are conflating ethics with compliance.

codingdave on April 6, 2020 [–]

When the compliance we are talking about is whether or not to communicate clearly to others who you are, and whether or not to respect their directions, are you so sure they are not correlated?

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