- YouTube
#Roku just threw me an "accept this" about automatic content detection.
Maybe Im wrong, but smelled like they wanna scrape the screen.
It allowed disagree 2 clicks in but now I trust them even less than before and that was none already.
@si_irini
You really ought to read #TimChambers article again.
Massive data extraction through #screenscraping has been happening for years:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111575306870943698
The only real defense is complete anonymity and deleting old posts after a week or so (the latter being unacceptable to me.)
Someone has been creating a meta-#searchengine for the #Fediverse. He respects #nobots (and something else.)
Don't recall the name @ present.
@_steve
IDK, I would need to know first if #ScreenScraping by #AI firms (and others) is an issue if I opt in.
If posts' content can be extracted, I'm out.
Still, it cannot be that I cannot even search my own stuff with fulltext search. That is just ridiculous.
Max props to the developer of puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth, who I just bought a coffee for.
The screen-scraper I wrote to bulk-export data from my Garmin sports tracker (because Garmin's API is "only for corporate partners", which is a magic spell you can say to make me write and open source a screen-scraper that targets your systems) stopped working today. Turns out Cloudflare could detect my automation.
Installed puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth. Fixed instantly. Awesome.