The new terms were supposed to take effect on October 30.

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Meta's controversial new commercial terms of use won't be taking effect on October 30 after all. In an email sent to Reuters and Fast Company , a spokesperson said that the company was "extending the effective date of [its] updated Commercial Terms and Self-Serve ⁠Ad Terms to 20 November to allow more time... to explain to ​[its] partners and stakeholders what's changing and what's not."

If you'll recall, the company previously shared a planned update to its terms with language saying that Meta would have the right to use web scrapers and automated tools "to access, index, cache, analyze, collect, retrieve, or crawl the domains, web pages, or URLs (and any content available through them)" associated with business accounts on the platform.…