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Browser-based scraping Recently, I had a scraping project that seemed pretty straightforward and I was fully prepared to use traditional scraping to handle it.
Social media users voiced worries about a move by Meta to use information from public posts, including on Facebook, to train its chatbot.
Facebook parent Meta has settled a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in data scraping operations, which had seen them gathering data from Facebook and Instagram users for ...
Meta has been using user content on Instagram for AI data scraping. If you haven't known this yet, you need to scroll further on IG the next time you open the app. Once you scroll through your ...
Posts are popping up on Instagram declaring that users own the copyright to all data. Bad news: Meta is likely already using the posts.
In this case, Meta had brought to the court an example of Bright Data’s web-scraping activities — a massive dataset that included 615 million records of Instagram data that sold for $860,000.