How Facebook was used as a proxy by web scraping bots
The DataDome research team recently discovered that bot operators were abusing Facebook’s link preview feature for web scraping purposes.
5 Nov 2020 ... How scraper bots could abuse the Facebook infrastructure ... to Facebook's servers, the requests to obtain data from the target HTML page are made by a Facebook server. ... "image": "https://external.fcdg2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/safe_image. php?w=144&h=144&url=https%3A%2F% ... "cache-control": "no-cache",.