When done right, web scraping is a powerful tool that can give businesses a competitive edge in today’s data-driven world.

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 ...