Gone are the days when you had to write code to automate your browser using tools like Playwright. Microsoft has now completely changed the game with its new tool called Scout. It is an always-on AI ...

Google built one of the world’s largest companies by scraping the entire web without asking permission first. This week a court told Google it cannot stop others from scraping Google. On 20 July, a ...

After a big court loss last week, Google has confirmed that it won’t give up its fight to block AI bots from scraping its search results. And Reddit is weirdly ...

The best user agent for web scraping is a current desktop Chrome 151 string for Windows. Chrome holds around 69% of the global browser market (StatCounter, June 2026), so it is the least conspicuous ...

The IAPP is policy neutral. We publish contributed opinion pieces to enable our members to hear a broad spectrum of views in our domains. This article is part of an ongoing series that will explore ...

Europe's top privacy body resolved one of the most contested legal questions in artificial intelligence on Tuesday, ruling that GDPR applies in full whenever web scraping involves EU residents' ...

In Ayurveda, tongue scraping is a cornerstone of ‘dinacharya,’ or your daily routine. According to Dr. Varalakshmi Yanamandra, an Ayurvedic doctor and gut expert, “The tongue provides a daily status ...

Should researchers still be posting their data openly online? It’s a question being debated by some researchers now that bots are routinely mining open-access databases and scientific publications to ...

A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how, with the user's consent, it can turn devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit ...

Imagine needing to check the price of a pair of shoes every five minutes. A store manager would quickly get suspicious and might even ban you. Web scraping is how you hire thousands of different ...

The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the internet functions. Instead ...