"ScrapingBee operates on one of the Internet's core principles: that the open web is meant to be accessible. Public web pages are, by design, readable by both humans and machines."
"access to content behind logins, paywalls, or authentication. We require customers to use our services only for accessing publicly available information, and we enforce compliance standards throughout our platform."
"The reality is that many modern anti-bot systems don't distinguish well between malicious traffic and legitimate automated access,"
Bright Data, ScrapingBee, and Oxylabs assert that their bots access only publicly available web pages and do not collect nonpublic information or content behind logins and paywalls. Meta and X pursued legal action over alleged improper scraping, but those suits were later dropped or dismissed. Anti-bot countermeasures can block legitimate automated access and create problems for publishers and legitimate scrapers such as cybersecurity researchers and journalists. Demand for scraped content is rising for AI training and AI-powered search, spurring more than 40 companies to market scraping services and the emergence of generative engine optimization as a marketing channel.
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