Easyjet gets shirty with screen scrapers
News Security
I was interested to read that Easyjet, aka Agent Orange in airline circles, is getting more than a bit shirty with third-party Web sites which it claims are screen scraping its pages.The problem, it seems, is that Easyjet thinks that the third-party sites - such as Expedia and Skyscanner.net - are extracting a commercial advantage by scraping selected data from the Easyjet site.The reality is that the price comparison sites are selling advertising, and an overall...
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