The Hypocrisy of Websites: My Data vs. Your Data
Description
A two-panel meme format featuring the character Cagney Carnation, a flower boss from the video game Cuphead. The top panel shows the flower in a rage, screaming with its tongue out, alongside the text: 'WEBSITES WHEN YOU SCRAPE THEIR CONTENT'. The bottom panel depicts the same flower with a calm, sweet, and innocent smile, with the accompanying text: 'WEBSITES WHEN THEY INSTALL COOKIES ON YOUR COMPUTER, TRACK YOUR BROWSING HISTORY, AND MINE BITCOIN ON YOUR BROWSER'. The meme humorously points out the double standard of some websites, which aggressively protect their own data from web scraping while simultaneously engaging in invasive and resource-intensive practices on their users' machines, such as tracking and cryptojacking. The joke resonates with developers who are familiar with both the technical aspects of scraping and the privacy implications of modern web tracking
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A website's terms of service: 'Our data is our intellectual property, protected by law and firewalls. Your data is our intellectual property, protected by a vague privacy policy and a pinky promise.'
Love how my read-only scraper gets a cease-and-desist while your “essential cookies” ship 6 MB of analytics JS and a hidden CoinHive worker - apparently privacy violations scale better than GET requests
The same company that rate-limits your API at 10 requests per second is running 47 tracking pixels, 3 analytics platforms, and a WebSocket that somehow knows when you switch tabs
Websites: 'How DARE you programmatically access our publicly available HTML!' Also websites: *silently deploys 47 tracking scripts, fingerprints your GPU, mines Monero in a hidden iframe, and sells your browsing patterns to 600 data brokers before the DOM even finishes loading* 'But we respect your privacy! Click here to manage your 2,847 legitimate interest partners.'
Scrape their HTML: WAF, cease‑and‑desist, and a sermon on robots.txt. Load their HTML: 30 trackers, device fingerprinting, and a “consent” modal that quietly spins up a crypto‑mining WebWorker - apparently automation is unethical only when it’s yours
Your scraper hits rate limits at 1 req/sec; their trackers slurp 10MB of telemetry per page
In this industry, robots.txt is treated like constitutional law, but Do‑Not‑Track is a TODO comment
Та забаньте уже Comment deleted
Сайтом разве можно считать историю браузера? Comment deleted
Можно, с некоторыми оговорками: https://superuser.com/questions/863917/can-a-website-know-about-my-browsing-history Comment deleted
Ну это вроде только через куки и для случаев, когда куки от не текущего домена не заблокированы, и если на других сайтах была любая ссылка с автозапросом(например картинка), с которой можно считать куки и заменить их. Про это то я знал, я думал есть более прямые способы. Comment deleted