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weird-eye-issue on Jan 4, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from reci...

No. As somebody who pays recipe creators and publishes recipes this is just wrong.

The recipe is separate from the text that accompanies it

logifail on Jan 4, 2022 [–]

> The recipe is separate from the text that accompanies it

Separate in a copyright sense?

A web scraping bot won't necessarily make that distinction.

weird-eye-issue on Jan 4, 2022 | [–]

Yes in a copyright sense. Recipes are also separate in a technical sense too because for SEO purposes publishers use markup to help crawlers understand recipes.

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