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> You may not use the services or Vercel's infrastructure for proxying, scraping

I think that's pretty clear cut then.

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Looking at archive.org, I think this was only added in their most recent May 1, 2023 TOS update.

He might be the reason it now exists in the TOS. :)

I just realized that archive.org might also in violation of Vercel's ToS given its ability to bypass paywall.

Why would they care? They are not hosted on Vercel.

Since the service alters the data before delivery, a strong argument can be made that it’s not a proxy per se. Say I did something similar with the goal of assisting vision-impaired users. That’s not just a proxy.

It’s the weekend. He’ll talk to them on Monday.

> a strong argument can be made that it’s not a proxy per se.

I suppose, although lots of proxies make changes.

Either way, he should probably change the URL that it uses if he intends to argue it's not a proxy of any kind. ;) I still have a tab open with an article, and the URL is:

  https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww...

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