Scraping is legal, but IIRC scraping authenticated contents is not.

Isn't Nitter abusing account sign-in for this?

CamperBob2 4 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

To fix this:

1) Nitter offers a deal: download our browser extension, sign up for Twitter, and we'll give you some kind of perk (Amazon credits, whatever).

2) Browser extension surfs Twitter on the user's behalf, scraping and sending copies to Nitter.

3) We find out how serious the legal system is about prosecuting scraping.

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immibis2 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Anyone can make an account, though, and instantly access that content, so Elon doesn't really have any leg to stand on by claiming they're private. It's not the same as Cambridge Analytica scraping stuff you had to have certain privileges to see by tricking the system into granting those privileges.

	▲	Klonoar 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Elon unfortunately may have a leg to stand on, because it doesn't functionally matter whether "anyone can make an account and see it". I don't believe any legal ruling to date has been fine with that distinction.

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ktm5j 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes, that's what they went on to point out.

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ranger_danger an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Aurora Store does the same thing to facilitate downloading Play Store apps.