Gaël Varoquaux Questions Ethics of Website Arm-Twisting
In an X reply, the scikit-learn contributor recounts a conversation about web data access.
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Gaël Varoquaux posted a reply on X describing an exchange in which another person said some websites block non-human access. Varoquaux suggested the sites build APIs. The other person replied that convincing multiple actors is difficult and does not scale. Varoquaux did not respond in the conversation but later stated he was bothered by the ethics of website arm-twisting. The post identifies him as research director at Inria and core contributor to scikit-learn.
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