What Web Scraping Is And Why It's Important In a nutshell, web scraping is an automated method of extracting data from websites. Specialized software scans webpages, retrieves the relevant ...

By posting a statement on Facebook or Instagram that begins with "Goodbye Meta AI," users are blocking the company from scraping their data to train artificial-intelligence tools.

The legality of scraping remains murky. In May 2025, Irish and German regulators declined to block Meta from using Facebook and Instagram data to train its Llama model, despite opposition from privacy ...