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		tedunangst on Sept 21, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IFTTT forced to remove Twitter triggers to comply ... When you repeatedly change your MAC address to avoid efforts to block your screen scraper, maybe then you will have a problem.

makmanalp on Sept 21, 2012 [–]

They can't really know your MAC address anyway since they're more than a hop away from you, most likely.

tedunangst on Sept 21, 2012 | [–]

That was more a reference to the Swartz case. But there too, jstor was more than one hop away.

makmanalp on Sept 21, 2012 | | [–]

Good point, forgot about that.

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