BYTEDANCE'S WEB SCRAPER IS ON A MASSIVE DATA GRAB SPREE

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ByteDance's web scraper, Bytespider, is rapidly collecting online data at a rate higher than other tech companies. It has increased its activity in recent weeks, gathering data 25X faster than GPTbot and 3,000X faster than Anthropic's ClaudeBot. ByteDance's bot ignores restrictions set by some sites to block scraping, raising concerns about its aggressive data collection.