OAuth on the client side is not about restricting access to people hacking up their own clients, its about restricting access to the network for things that don

OAuth on the client side is not about restricting access to people hacking up their own clients, its about restricting access to the network for things that don't fit the api owners wishes, in this case involving revenue. Just like content owners dont tend to worry too much when a hard to use and essentially impossible to scale bypass tool is released, but it behind a nice gui and toss it in an appstore and you've brought all sorts of hell upon yourself. Thinking of oauth on the client as any kind of security measure on the client side is absurd anyways, at best it keeps honest people honest and maybe cuts down on signal/noise for the lowest of the low budget spammers.