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Meta grants itself right to scrape content from business customers for model training
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this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2026
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"test credentials" just reads to me as them giving themselves permission to straight up pen test every business with a social media account.
Very tempting to take a list of IP address ranges such as https://networksdb.io/ip-addresses-of/meta-platforms-inc and add them to our WAF blocklist, since I assume they won't be honest about their user agent string when scraping.
Except there's no guarantee they'll be coming from one of their own IP addresses. There's nothing to stop them from using a residential botnet.
All too true, unfortunately. No honor among thieves!