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Facebook changes the rules for the public web (petewarden.typepad.com)
9 points by petewarden on June 15, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


couldn't you just use their API?


probably not, but that's irrelevant. the point is facebook's robots.txt says you can crawl it but their TOS says you can't. facebook have already shown they are willing to sue anyone who tries to crawl without permission. this new model that facebook is trying to use isn't scalable, it favors the big guys and is bad for the open web.




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