Meta's latest charm offensive: convincing businesses to agree to have their websites vacuumed like a Roomba on steroids. 🤖🔍 Meanwhile, #Cloudflare pretends it's solving a mystery, blocking curious readers like a bouncer at a speakeasy. 🙄🔒
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-sites-legal-experts-say/ #Meta #WebScraping #BusinessStrategy #DigitalPrivacy #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated
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Business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites Starting Oct. 30
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111852
#HackerNews #Meta #Scraping #BusinessAccounts #WebScraping #DigitalPrivacy #NewsIndustry