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Opt-in? That would make it substantially less useful, and would favour incumbent review sites/services.


Yes, scraping and selling data about people and small businesses and finding the sketchiest ways to monetize that without any recourse should probably be illegal. And if it favors incumbent sites and services, so be it.

On a side note, Google, Yelp or FB aren't small dogs going against the incumbent. They are the incumbent, and that's the sole reason they can get these things going with so little effort.




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