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Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me... Aren't there tons of companies like Trolley that scrape data, etc. without issues?

Like, I assume these do: PriceSpy, PriceRunner, PrisJakt, Shopping.com, PriceGrabber, etc.

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A lot of E-commerce software have data feeds that are ingested by parties like pricespy. These feeds are typically either public or made available after mutual agreements. Scraping a large amount of sites for data is just too much labor in the long run.

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