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Couldn't you accomplish that with a browser extension?
by nsgi 6y ago
Couldn't you accomplish that with a browser extension?
- texasbigdata 6y agoI think OP maybe made a meta point about a (company/team/project) having carte blanche ability to, or perhaps restated to not give you the ability to restrict someone from, modify your initiative towards your existing end users (who may prefer your setup) in a way which threatens your survival. Extending the analogy to absurdium, should (CompanyX/Twitter) be allowed to have ToS against a (browser extension/etc) which would reduce it's revenue to $0, and theoretically force it to shut down and lay off all the (engineers/employees)? If no, what rights does Twitter have to decide alterations to it's product if any, and where do they begin? If yes, who makes that decision: a government, a regulatory body etc? What if the ToS said "don't circumvent our API rate limiting" and someone made a browser extension doing just that. Is it okay to have it in the Google chrome store? If it got in, should it stay up? Note, against my points, the Supreme Court decision on scraping in the LinkedIn case.