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Maybe instead of selling scraping to end users, invert the problem and sell data to AI companies:

1. Pay users to install a browser extension that scrapes social media content they browse. Or ask them in exchange for a service, e.g. "remember everything I browse and make it searchable", etc.

2. Ship the data you scrape to your servers.

3. Sell training data to companies at a discount.

This gets past the new rate limiters and blocks that Reddit and others have installed.




That's like 90% of the way to "free" VPNs that actually rent out your IP address to spiders, those have been around for ages.

What if we gave people some service, say a "browser toolbar", and in exchange we sell their browsing data to third parties?

You just reinvented spyware from first principles. This is basically BonziBuddy.




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