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Don't do anything that places an unreasonably large load on our Services' infrastructure, use any robots, spiders, scrapers or other automated means to access our Services, try to interfere with the proper working of our Service or attempt to bypass any of our security measures
You will not systematically retrieve data or content from the Web Services to create a collection, compilation, database, or directory, except through APIs or other interfaces specifically provided for this purpose.
"Unless explicitly permitted, you may not use web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction methods to extract data from the AI services.Excerpt from Microsoft's Services Agreement (Legacy)
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The clause states: “Unless explicitly permitted, you may not use web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction methods to extract data from the AI services.”
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