Should Hotmail Block Screen Scrapers?Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life
Paul Buchheit, creator of
Gmail now the founder of FriendFeed, has a
blog post entitled Should
Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail block Facebook? where he writes
Apparently Facebook
will ban you (or at least Robert Scoble) whether you attempt to extract your friend’s
newsletter addresses from the service. Automated access is a difficultissue for any web
service, so I won’t argue with their decision — it’s their service and they own you.
However, when I signed up for Facebook I gave them my Gmail address and password,
using their find
friends feature:…
So the question is, should Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail block Facebook (or close the
accounts of anyone who uses Facebook’s […]Orginal post by (author unknown)
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