Is this tactic of forking and rebranding some sort of open source embrace, extend, extinguish thing? I guess I shouldn’t be surprised given it’s the company that blocks scrapers and sells scraping solutions.
nah, it's plain AI stupidity, last paragraph tells it all.
Is this a fork or slop-fork?
Originally, I thought it's a proper fork using the original code-base. But given that the reasons for the fork seem to be largely LLM hallucinated, I think it counts as a slop-fork.
(Plus, their scraper always obeys robots.txt. If every scraper was like that, no one would ever need their anti-scraper solution)
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Is this tactic of forking and rebranding some sort of open source embrace, extend, extinguish thing? I guess I shouldn’t be surprised given it’s the company that blocks scrapers and sells scraping solutions.
nah, it's plain AI stupidity, last paragraph tells it all.
(Plus, their scraper always obeys robots.txt. If every scraper was like that, no one would ever need their anti-scraper solution)