I made a FreeRice.com bot... should I put it in my application?

QuantMech
Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:19:19 +0000

I wouldn’t do it. The Free Rice site, under FAQ, covers the issue of writing a computer program to play, and why you should not. They give two reasons:

1. People who are using the site manually see the advertisements. The advertisers want this, and that is why they are willing to pay, so that Free Rice can give rice away.

2. The servers might become overloaded.
So you would be demonstrating that you are doing something that a charity asks you not to do? Where is the benefit in that?