Similar vibes than Reddit api pricing

  • kalleboo@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Another reminder to developers to not bother with public APIs, just screen-scrape or reverse-engineer the official app private API.

      • fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        This. It’s a recipe for disaster. I think enough (tech-related) companies have shown now, that they first want to lock you in, and then if they got you, want to bleed you out…

    • auzy@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Then you’re at risk of getting sued for cracking the encryption or the API breaking constantly

      The real reminder is don’t integrate with devices which you can’t trust

      • auzy@lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        Yeah guys. Downvote me. This is literally part of my day job.

        In our industry we call not using an official API a dumpster fire API. Because more than once it has completely broken eventually, and there are a few manufacturers warned will break in the upcoming future

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          3 hours ago

          Is it illegal to scrape? I mean most companies and governments scrape huge amounts of data all the time without getting anyones permission, hell the entire business of a search engine is basically WeScrape4U.