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Don't be silly. Of course I use Facebook. Most people do. I have no time of day for the developers of the spamware that fill it, but that's not the issue here.
by shadowmint 15y ago
Don't be silly. Of course I use Facebook. Most people do.
I have no time of day for the developers of the spamware that fill it, but that's not the issue here.
A plugin that does not in any way use the Facebook api is just a stand alone application.
This is exactly what Cory Doctorow is talking about with the war on general purpose computing. A company flailing wilding and applying bad (legal) pressure to bare against the issue of people using their computers to do something the company doesn't like (in this case automating game actions) is the wrong solution.
- mbell 15y agoI don't understand your position at all. In essence it appears to be "if they don't use our API we have no recourse at all, its all fair use". Along the same lines any bot that automates any computer game is "ok", even if it destroys an entire industry of professional gaming, any application that scraps web data is "ok", etc. HN even blocks that kind of use.