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Comment by bostik

What a sneaky wording.

> fetches Amazon’s price for products that users see on Walmart.com, Target.com and elsewhere.

To me that reads: "we will turn your computer to a node in our scraping botnet". I would guess the internal documents they have will refer to this as market research, but the fact remains that this sounds like a botnet under construction.

parent bostik 7 years ago

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