And Meta has had enough of it.

“Even though scraping is against Facebook’s terms of use, it’s not strictly illegal.

Some scraping operations are malicious, but others are academic, or journalistic,” clarified Bischoff.

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Tackling “new challenges” such as scraping was a natural extension of the program.

Even though scraping is against Facebooks terms of use, it’s not strictly illegal.

According to Meta, the expanded bug bounty program will reward security researchers on two fronts.

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