The issue only surfaced after a developer had trouble using multipoint Bluetooth headphones while an AliExpress tab was open: the headphones wouldn't switch properly from the computer...
Business dangers from scraping / automation are basically of two types:
archival record for proof mostly for legal prosecution and contract negotiation. There’s a lot of really bad shit going on on Chinese web despite the great firewall of China and you can hide it in plain sight if it’s ephemeral. So if I sell illegal goods but it’s not archived ever no one can really prosecute me. Gray/black markets players in China just rebrand every month and get away with everything.
real time data for price/trend competition. Prices and trends move incredibly fast in China, people in the west don’t even understand how far ahead chinese e-commerce is, Amazon is like 10 years behind. So all that scraped info is incredibly valuable for chasing capitalism.
nobody? you mean, not even the common people? what are the dangers they see?
Business dangers from scraping / automation are basically of two types:
The CCP disagreeing with your version of recorded history, probably.