Megacorps Treat Browser DevTools Like Crime

Description

A four-panel "straight to jail" meme from Parks and Recreation shows an official speaking in front of a municipal meeting room, with large white captions on a dark overlay. The panels read: "You open up devtools. Jail.", "You accidentally click inspect element. Jail.", "You manually copy paste data from a website. Straight to Jail!", and "You visit a website. Believe it or not, jail!" The sibling metadata caption says: "Megacorps when it comes to web scraping". The meme mocks companies that frame ordinary browser inspection, copying public page data, or visiting a website as suspicious behavior when scraping threatens their business model.

Common Tags

BrowserDevTools WebDevelopment BrowserAutomation DataCollectionMethods DataAcquisition WebSecurity BotDetection CyberLaw CorporateIrony BigTechCompanies SecurityTheater TechIndustrySatire

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick The page shipped 8 MB of public JSON to my browser, but apparently reading it with the wrong tab open is the exploit.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The page shipped 8 MB of public JSON to my browser, but apparently reading it with the wrong tab open is the exploit.
@mvolfik 4y

Oh and don't you dare block a single JavaScript request
@mvolfik 4y

Though a few weeks ago I needed to scrape some stuff and Apify was quite nice Stuff like residential proxies and auto-throttled request queues to avoid blocking with minimal setup
1. @RiedleroD 4y
  
  what did you scrape?
  
  @mvolfik 4y
  
  I was messing with Instagram networks, considering it for my high school graduation project Basically five clicks to Hitler but with mutual followers
  
  @mvolfik 4y
  
  But then I ended up remaking a board game as a web game, because that sounded easier (zpoiler alert: it wasn't) But it was more fun (and probably also useful) roborally-mvolf.herokuapp.com if anyone wants to look
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  cool! I'll have a look at it tomorrow, gotta get some sleep now
  
  @mvolfik 4y
  
  Go get some I always wonder what you're doing, it's like whenever I reply to something here (not too often), you're always active
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  I've got telegram open on my laptop, it's my primary communication software. I'm not as active as it looks
@anatoli26 4y

Explanations team please! Some new totalitarian law on infosec researchers? 🤔
1. dev_meme 4y
  
  No, just the way how many executives would like to limit visitors