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There's no specific case where terms apply to non-logged in scraping. But what the court's ruling here showed us is that if terms specifically called out non-logged in scraping and prohibited it, a court could rule that you cannot scrape that site even when not logged in. However, there are other factors that would come into play, like whether a contract was properly formed, so we're yet to see how court's will rule on that. But the main point is that this case only looked at Facebook and Instagram's terms specifically, so other websites terms could be viewed differently based on how they are worded.

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What is different case that the terms do apply to non-logged-in scraping?

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