Updated: Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, has raised a firestorm in the media world with new commercial terms that appeared to give it broad authorization to scrape users’ web pages for product development and AI training. News coverage originated from a tip from The Steampunk Explorer.
They are asking for permission now?
No, they declare they’re doing it in the ToS but bury it so virtually nobody actually sees it and knows about it.
Yup, click OK and they can “legally” use all that stuff they already scraped and used.