clashmeifyoucan

In fact it is a bit more severe than that as you are effectively deanonymizing yourself. If everyone else is using a 3-hop circuit but your crawler is using just 2 hops, it wouldn't take much effort to isolate your activity in the network since you're effectively standing out.

That is correct. Tor Project has really struggled with negative connotations in the media with the so called "dark web" so I believe the terminology does play a part.

Actually, the official term is Onion Services (https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/onion-services.html.en check out the first paragraph)

While I don't think scrapers have legal action taken against them unless they become a major pain for the company, faking User-Agent strings has been painted as spoofing by lawyers, https://stackoverflow.com/a/20926119/9044659 (very old example).

I wonder if employing these methods worsen the legality (or the lack of it thereof) associated with scraping.

Now, what I'm not sure about and don't have the means to consult a lawyer about is

1) How liable is the author of a scraper who put it on GitHub but never did use it themselves. Because I remember seeing a lot of implementations and tutorials of tools like BeautifulSoup that don't necessarily comply with the ToS.

2) What if you edit the User-Agent to something that resembles a browser provided the scraper is just substituting browser interaction, e.g. those search from your terminal applications. Could/would it be construed as impersonation or something?

/lib/ld-musl-x86_64.so.1 /bin/busybox chmod +r ORME.flag /lib/ld-musl-x86_64.so.1 /bin/busybox cat ORME.flag

I bypassed the shell by executing the binary straight from the loader so I was able to do a chmod +r and cat to get it.