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Ethics in Web Measurements

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Harm from crawling

  • Excessive use of resources
  • Collecting unlicensed data
  • Actions causing financial harm (ordering something, wasting time of website owners, etc.)
  • Security risks

robots.txt

  • Is it meant for us?
  • Parsing
  • Fraud
  • Trespass
  • Breach of contract (terms of service)

Ethics approval

Scientific sources for this page

References

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practices/ethics.txt · Last modified: 2025/02/20 08:20 by karelkubicek