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>Where is the financial damage? They offered API that they don't want people to use. Maintaining APIs and uptime costs, but they only wanted their API to be us

by agilob 3y ago

>Where is the financial damage? They offered API that they don't want people to use. Maintaining APIs and uptime costs, but they only wanted their API to be used by their apps that collect data about you.

hunter2_ 3y ago
> They offered API that they don't want people to use. I wonder how this would play out if instead of serving responses for nonhuman consumption (i.e., an API), it was serving responses for human consumption (i.e, HTML documents). In that scenario, if a subset of requests were of a high-frequency nonhuman nature (i.e., polling and scraping), would a court find it equally abusive or materially different?
- agilob 3y ago
  HTLM documents evolve much more frequently and there were dozens of HA addons that simply gave up updating their regexes extracting certain information from HTML and emails.
  - quotemstr 3y ago
    Ah, but now we have LLMs that can understand human interfaces without manual tweaking!