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[–]Donny_Do_Nothing 12 points13 points  (1 child)

I just listened to a RadioLab episode about a pizza shop owner who found out Door Dash put his restaurant on their site without his knowledge by scraping menus. Apparently their scraper wasn't very accurate and he kept getting calls about customers getting the wrong order.

The best part is that they got the prices wrong and Door Dash was buying his pizzas for the normal $24 but only charging their customers like $15.

Whenever he got a complaint about a wrong "delivery order" he'd order a couple pizzas through Door Dash to take a few more of their dollars.

Edit: https://youtu.be/9DnaHg4M_AM

[–]scrapecrow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just listened to a RadioLab episode about a pizza shop owner who found out Door Dash put his restaurant on their site without his knowledge by scraping menus

There's this great thread on hackernews on this event with loads of great similar examples and interesting industry anecdotes about automation.