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Researchers get banned (including their personal accounts) from facebook for "scraping" political ad data. (media.communities.win)

posted 3 years ago by aha_maligned 3 years ago by aha_maligned +42 / -1

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– Isolated_Patriot 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

They are just protecting their "property." The user agreements signs over all data to facebook, so that they can sell it to the highest bidder. This is because they want the university to buy the data. Getting it for free is illegal for anyone else, because facebook writes the privacy laws.

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– oksign 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

Scrapers really hate it when you scrape

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