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The web is tired of getting harvested for chatbots.
I get asked all the time how I scrape data, so today I’m sharing my favorite tools - no technical knowledge needed. From BuiltWith, a secret hack, and a Chrome extension plus GPT, to Outscraper, I’ll ...
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The Trump administration’s abusive efforts to repurpose millions of federal records and funnel them into a centralized government database represent a systemic shift toward a consolidation of ...
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Reddit is now blocking the Internet Archive (IA) from indexing popular Reddit threads after allegedly catching sneaky AI firms—restricted from scraping Reddit—instead simply scraping data from IA's ...
Reddit is blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from indexing most of its site, after discovering that AI companies were scraping its data from the digital time capsule. The move comes as ...
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Cloudflare set a trap, and Perplexity crawled right into it. Perplexity impersonates Google's Chrome browser to gain unauthorized access to data, Cloudflare finds. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince ...
When Mark Zuckerberg announced on July 14 that his company Meta was embarking on a project to build massively power-hungry data centers to support its ambitions for advancing artificial intelligence, ...