meta wanted to crawl every site tied to your business account. it paused
meta's new business terms would let it crawl domains linked to business accounts. a court froze them in one country, the uk opened an investigation, and meta postponed.
what meta tried
meta's new terms for business accounts, set for 30 october, would have let it use scrapers to "index, cache, analyze, collect, retrieve, or crawl the domains, web pages, or urls" tied to a business account.
critics said it would apply to all business clients, without payment, and could help meta build competing products.
meta said the update only applies to its ads and business tools.
the pushback
- on 28 october a court granted a temporary injunction suspending the new terms, at the request of 180 media companies
- on 30 october the uk competition and markets authority opened its own investigation
where it stands
meta postponed the rollout. no new date.
why it matters for a creator business
most agencies run ad accounts and business pages connected to websites, link pages and landing pages.
if these terms come back, whatever sits on those linked domains could be read by meta.
the short version
- meta's new business terms would let it crawl domains tied to business accounts
- a court froze them on 28 october after 180 media companies asked
- the uk competition regulator opened an investigation on 30 october
- meta postponed with no new date
- regular public posts on instagram and facebook can already be used for training, per the same report
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