alt Hacker Newsive seen unscrupulous founders fake traction during diligence, which is my day job
but ive never seen one raise $4.5m for an ai agent startup built around pulling fresh web data, then openly cheer the unethical proxy infrastructure used to evade consent and blocks
then inventing a fantasy about who i associate with instead of answering that conflict is an unusually loud form of projection
How strange, my fantasy was totally on point and literally describes your day job! But does the forced lowercase thing just erode one's ability to make a coherent point?
"ive never seen one raise $4.5m for an ai agent startup built around pulling fresh web data, then openly cheer the unethical proxy infrastructure used to evade consent and blocks"
You've never seen this, making this non-sequitur? Or this "directionally correct by my priors" speak for something else?
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Either way it has nothing to do with why the proxy is unethical (I already covered that) and everything to do with why their startup is unethical
(or not? if they're not being assholes about the scraping more power to them, I've used proxies + agents to let my users get their own data off other sites that felt it was their right to block people from accessing their own data easily)