The New York Times filed suit against Brave on Monday in federal court in Manhattan, alleging the browser company scraped its copyrighted articles and distributed them to AI firms including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere. A separate but similar lawsuit was filed the same day by the Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel. The complaints also cite a Brave feature that bypasses paywalls and its practice of blocking publishers' ads while inserting its own.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-11-02
Reddit plans to require all visitors to log in to view the site, a major shift from its current open-browsing model. CEO Steve Huffman says the company will first test the requirement in select markets outside the US in the coming months, with no firm timeline for a full rollout or details on what logged-out visitors will see. Reddit is also reintroducing an incognito mode for its app.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-29
Meta is delaying enforcement of new business terms, originally set for October 30th, after publishers warned the language could let the company scrape news content for AI training. A Meta spokesperson told The Verge the terms will now take effect November 20th to give the company time to clarify what is and isn't changing for partners.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-23
A California federal judge finalized a settlement requiring ProAPIs and Netswift to stop mass-scraping LinkedIn user data, halt sales or transfers of that data, cease using fake accounts to access the platform, and delete previously scraped information. LinkedIn had sued the companies and their CEO last October, accusing them of running millions of fake accounts to continuously harvest profile, company and school data as well as user posts and comments. ProAPIs, which describes itself as a data pipeline platform, said it has agreed to a consent judgment and denies offering tools to scrape LinkedIn.
therecord.media
· 2026-09-24
A 15.5 GB file containing over 7.3 million Chess.com user records surfaced for free on two data-leak forums, with no ransom attached. Analysis of the archive found genuine, recent Chess.com data including emails, usernames, ratings, and subscription status, but no passwords or payment details, pointing toward large-scale scraping rather than a server intrusion.
securityaffairs.com
· 2026-09-14
Multiple AI companies are now accusing each other of stealing proprietary technology, models, or data, even as the broader industry itself has built its foundation on scraping internet content without explicit consent from original creators. This dynamic has created a contradictory landscape where firms decry theft while relying on similarly extractive practices for their own products.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-09-13
X has issued legal takedown notices to the open-source Nitter project and its offshoot XCancel, accusing them of data scraping and rules violations. Both services, which let users read X posts without an account, JavaScript or tracking, have gone offline, with Nitter's maintainer citing legal advice and XCancel posting a notice about the cease-and-desist letter. Nitter's GitHub repository is now archived and read-only.
theregister.com
· 2026-08-26
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