2026-09-26 22:10 UTC
@glyph@mastodon.social I believe it was from the MSFT discovery, a text workspace of some sort where someone shared "hey look I figured out how to get around [org]'s paywalls with the scraper" and the other person's response was "oh, nice"
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@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io 2026-09-26 22:11
@glyph@mastodon.social ah, I'm wrong, it was OpenAI: 【OpenAI employees devised and implemented strategies to circumvent paywalls without detection when scraping websites. For example, when Nick Ryder informed Mr. Brockman about “a hack to get around nytimes paywall” to help with Mr. Brockman’s efforts to “scrape[]” The Times’s site, Mr. Brockman responded “ah nice.” SF791.】 That's from § IV(A)(3), page 56 of the filing (page 64 of the PDF ArsTechnica published)