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So do they scrape a competitor's website every day? Or do they respect the robots.txt?

If so, it seems like this would be extremely easy for a competitor to block, and if not, well it's surely a bit shady?

I got the sense that they're scraping the customer's site every day. So they might find a new JS library or CSS file from a competitor.

Paypal might want to know when a customer starts trying out Stripe, and KISSmetrics probably cares when people start using Mixpanel.

As a customer, I feel unfairly targeted without my participation for the profit of a third party. This makes money, but it does not make the world a better place to want to live in.

No, they scrape potential customers' sites. Customers don't have the same incentive to block it.

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