I bailed mentally at an interview with a YC startup in SF because, as part of the technical portion, they had me write a scraper to pull information from searches on other sites.  This was against each site&#x27;s legal&#x2F;usage terms (and so was defeating the basic obstacles the companies put in the way of being scraped in bulk). When I asked about their business model they revealed that they were making money by doing exactly this and had zero intention of changing that or partnering with the other sites to legally obtain the data.<p>Their recent series A made them so cavalier; they landed money to do this, so of course it was right. It would eat into profits if they negotiated contracts to do it aboveboard.