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One thing that could help is more client-side tools to enable this. It's remarkable what you can get away with individually that would be blocked en masse.

Social fixer, for FB years ago, made the feed much better and was purely client side. Personally, I got sick of the real estate websites where I live and just made my own frontend for them, crawling with Scrapy. I haven't gotten a 403 yet.

Not sure how to make money off of it, though - short of selling people software in exchange for money.



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