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The prohibition applies to any such use, covering a broad range of automated data collection methods and closing standard technical avenues for extracting Amazon content at scale.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is a fragment without the surrounding sentence establishing the prohibition or its scope. The canonical claim infers from the excerpt that this is a prohibition on such tools in connection with Amazon Services, consistent with standard acceptable-use framing, but the governing verb and full syntactic context are not quoted. Confidence is medium because the excerpt is incomplete.
The reader is prohibited from using data mining tools, robots, or similar automated data gathering or extraction tools in connection with Amazon Services.
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"any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.Excerpt from Amazon's Conditions of Use
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The prohibition applies to any such use, covering a broad range of automated data collection methods and closing standard technical avenues for extracting Amazon content at scale.
The reader is prohibited from using data mining tools, robots, or similar automated data gathering or extraction tools in connection with Amazon Services.
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