Why Web Scraping Is Vital to Democracy (2020)

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Web scraping is considered shady business by many people mostly because of how IP address are obtained by proxy providers. More details on this here: https://scrapingfish.com/how-ips-for-web-scraping-are-source...

not quite. Web scraping was always condemned the same way it is now. A lot of it is people who don't know how to rate-limit themselves and end up bringing servers down.

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