In the Butlerian Jihad (from Dune but popularized by many smolnet posters like Alex Schroeder) we rightly hate bots and scrapers but I’m in a bit of a glass house around that, since I’ve made a few scrapers for my own personal use as a way to get RSS Atom feeds out of sites that don’t have feeds. I love scraping and mashing.♥︎ The JS-laden SPA era was a nightmare for me. I hate browsers and server-side styling. I love getting texts from URLs.