Scraping is how we preserve the web:
https://archive.org/web/
Scraping is how journalists rescue their work from media companies after private equity owners shut them down and delete their archives:
https://slate.com/business/2024/02/messenger-gawker-vice-media-layoffs-sites-deleted-why.html
Scraping is how we'll get new, better search-engines that filter out the botshit, scams and SEO nonsense:
https://kagi.com/
21/
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