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> cobalt was created for public benefit, to protect people from ads and malware pushed by its alternatives

can't say the same for bytedance, which is designed to exploit users with various ads

It was created for donation money, lets not do mental gymnastics to justify one type of scraping and vilify another. Scraping is scraping and it's either all fair game or it's not all fair game.

I feel like you’re missing the point on purpose? Cobalt is asserting that it’s doing good based on the shadier behaviour of its competitors. But can you justify Cobalt in isolation any more than you can justify whoever was scraping it?

Yes.

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