It's bad form to scrape the scrapers?

Yes, arguably, and for reasons I already gave. I’d genuinely spend a bit more time reading and thinking rather than replying. Your replies are pithy but you’re missing details and frankly making cognitive mistakes. (Apologies if this seems harsh, I don’t mean it as an insult, but this thread has blown up entirely unnecessarily- and yes, I know I’m not helping either!)

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petcat 4 hours ago | parent [-]

You seem to think that scraping websites "for the public good" is somehow different than scraping websites for any other reason.

The end result is exactly the same.

	▲	DaSHacka 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The minuscule traffic generated by the wayback machine, which serves to preserve the content for years to come, is completely incomparable to the scrapers that hammer every single href linked on a website.
	▲	sippingabonedry an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You missed the XCancel flamewar yesterday. The consensus is we should be allowed to scrape data and bypass login walls if we dislike the site owner, or feel we are owed free access by arbitrary criteria, it's sort of an unwritten rule. Unless of course it's Google or Meta properties we're talking about because that might impact RSUs.