Share a software(QImageScraper) to scrape images from Google,Bing and Yahoo search results

[natedl98 (nate)]

@lateralplacket

With respect @tham, though I’m sympathetic to the desire to advance your own learning and the field of machine learning, I hope you reconsider what effects your use of Tor will have on others and stop using it for this purpose.

I’m pretty sure using Tor to scrape websites would be considered an abuse of Tor, of the website you’re scraping, and of the freedoms of people using Tor legitimately, by all three groups of people (Tor operators and maintainers, website operators, and users) - and also by the subset of the general public who know what Tor is and know its legitimate uses.

I hope that isn’t too blunt, but it’s easy to forget about the wider context here!

The reasons include

1. Other people using Tor will be prevented from browsing that website using Tor if/when either Tor as a whole or particular IPs you end up using are blocked

2. Tor’s reputation goes downhill: “it’s just a hiding place for web scrapers and terrorists”

3. People who really NEED Tor because for example they’re in an oppressive regime or otherwise persecuted for their ideas (or reading about others’ ideas), will more often find they’re unable to see what you can by any means, or publish content on those websites, because they have started blocking Tor to prevent abuse

4. People who try to use Tor to defend freedom in currently-more-free states by circumventing surveillance also find it incrementally harder to do so

OK enough lecturing, this is only my second post here!

It’s taking every ounce of my willpower not to troll this post