[nicomeemes]

I had that initial reaction too, but he's right. I mean, I fucked up. I didn't read the Terms of Service evidently, and I'm suffering for that. What I do know for sure though is that I never, under any circumstances, contributed to anything malicous. That is: malware, cryptominers, and their ilk.

As a developer who's still early in their career, my hope is that someone will see this, understand the existential weight of having all that work disappear, and be sympathetic to a request for a second chance.

[brudgers]

If I’ve understood your comments, I get the impression your business practices entail scraping. Often but not always, scraping for money happens in an adversarial context.

If that’s the case, your adversaries are incentivized to employ counter-measures and/or simply make your life difficult in general. It could be as straight-forward as a letter to the platform from in-house legal with reference to DCMA or similar. Or to put it another way, if you are scraping sites people will pay you to scrape, even if you aren’t on questionable legal ground there’s a non-trivial chance the scraping is making the targets unhappy.