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Comment by sroussey

10 hours ago

All of these questions are easily answered by the question: can I run the bot on the same PC I use regularly? If so, then do it there. If not, then don’t do it at all.

Why should technical capability to evade countermeasures dictate whether or not something is ethical? My view is that scraping remains ethical as long as your actions aren't causing technical problems for the operator. If anything, a retailer attempting to hide pricing data is what's unethical in my view.