Facebook is working hard to try and protect its clients from having their information taken by what are known as scrapers. Scrapers are programs that will go to different sites and try to scan and get vital information about people to use in a number of different ways. Facebook now has upgraded their robots.txt file to be very restrictive in allowing other sites and companies to be able to scrape their pages. In fact, there is now a need for permission to be able to do so and in many cases these companies applying for permission will need to provide legitimate reasons for performing a scrape.
This is just another way that Facebook is looking to help and to protect the clients that they have and to be able to give them the comfort they want in their social networking. It is about providing more secure web access and customer satisfaction.
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