Read the original article: Facebook’s link preview feature abused for website-scraping scheme
A number of data-scraping groups have been using the Facebook link preview feature to scrape data from internet sites which disguised as Facebook’s content crawler. They are using a technique which consists of utilising Facebooks developer accounts in order to place calls to Facebook or Facebook’s Messenger API servers requesting a link preview for pages […]
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