# Legal & Policy

- [SerpApi countersues Reddit over API access restrictions](https://extractfeed.io/story/serpapi-countersues-reddit-over-api-access-restrictions-dfab48d/) — SerpApi has filed counterclaims against Reddit in response to Reddit's lawsuit, alleging broken promises of an open internet and unfair API pricing.
- [Zyte analysis finds 75% of top sites use robots.txt, but few name specific crawlers](https://extractfeed.io/story/zyte-analysis-finds-75-of-top-sites-use-robots-txt-but-few-n-e5e97be/) — Zyte published a study showing that three-quarters of the world's top websites publish a robots.txt file, yet most do not name individual crawlers.
- [Zyte argues EU AI scraping guidelines rely on outdated robots.txt standard](https://extractfeed.io/story/zyte-argues-eu-ai-scraping-guidelines-rely-on-outdated-robot-62ff000/) — Zyte publishes a blog post arguing that Europe's new generative AI scraping guidelines, which lean on the robots.txt protocol, will harm users and entrench monopolies.
- [Zyte blog post examines how AI and web scraping turn scattered personal data into security risks](https://extractfeed.io/story/zyte-blog-post-examines-how-ai-and-web-scraping-turn-scatter-b0c02d8/) — Domagoj Marić explores the intersection of AI, web scraping, and OSINT to show how fragmented personal data is assembled into profiles, scams, and security threats at Extract Summit.
- [Zyte research argues web scraping faces pricing barriers, not outright blocking](https://extractfeed.io/story/zyte-research-argues-web-scraping-faces-pricing-barriers-not-00b8b4e/) — Zyte's State of Web Access report, discussed in an interview with the researcher, finds that new economic barriers are making web scraping more difficult rather than technical blocks.