If you want to refer specifically to web scraping then call it “web scraping” or “site scraping” or “HTML scraping”

Not difficult to get your meaning across.

I’m only remarking on the irony that porn developers might have an easier time because they can intentionally develop the clean ‘steam-version’ of their game to pass review without having to declare any contents at all.

eat someone safe

Uuh

Scraping has multiple meanings.

Web scraping is a specific type of scraping, but data via APIs or even torrents could be considered a scrape, even if that data is nicely structured.

The commonality between them is they all have the implication that:

• the data harvesting is automated
• the data you harvest is not owned by you, and you don’t have explicit permission to use it
• the scope of what you harvest is broad and not targeted at retrieving specific limited pieces of data

Any access patterns that broadly correspond to this could be considered scraping.

Meanwhile, there are “all-ages” anime visual-novel games on steam with official patches hosted by the developers off-site which turn them into full-on pornos - which is the version of the game they are actually trying to sell and what people are buying it for.

And not a peep from Valve on that because it’s off-site.

Must be very frustrating to developers of mainline games that by being honest and engaging with valve openly, they face far more hassle than groups who designed their game specifically to circumvent the rules.

Unless your game actually has adult content (and lots of it!) you don’t want it hiding behind some adults-only flag where few people will see it.

Basically a death sentence for your game.

Ding ding! Nailed it.

Inflate apparent views across the board while simultaneously making it harder for creators to get paid.

“Narc on your parents to us”