Comment by kazinator

All you are saying is that scraping is an undesirable form of access, different from authentic access.

However, it is something that happens, and when you license copyrighted material to someone such that they have permission to serve it to visitors on their website, they are not automatically required to be a cop guarding your material against scraping.

There is an understanding that public-facing content gets scraped and used for AI training and whatever else. Someone licensing content into that role is accepting that reality.

Also, anyone in their right mind granting consent to Meta for scraping will still block them from doing that. That action speaks louder that the consent. If some content licensor accuses you of giving Meta consent to steal their material, you can point to your implemented physical defense against that and argue that the only way it could be happening is if Meta are circumventing your utmost efforts block scraping.