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Re:Bye bye BetterSlack by mattigames on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @05:04PM (#17872025)
You are not modifying slack (their product), when you request a website all they are sending you its a bunch of characters, including characters inside CSS or JS files, rendering those its up to your machine, you are not legally binded to render those in a specific way, otherwise screen readers would all be completely illegal, all threads of not modifying your local render of a website always end poorly by the people doing such threats, examples:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2r3uok/we_developed_a...

https://www.quora.com/Is-AdBlock-legal-If-not-specifically-w...

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Re:Bye bye BetterSlack by TheDong on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @06:07PM (#17872500)
> You are not modifying slack (their product)

Their product are the bits they ship to you and the code they run on their servers.

You're modifying a part of their product.

Since you can't modify their product, you also obviously shouldn't be able to use any web browser to view slack because those browsers take those bytes they ship you and interpret them in the context of the browser windowing system (its userChrome.css for example)... that's also clearly modifying the experience they delivered to you.

You also shouldn't be able to use a computer monitor that has color settings different from the web designers working at slack. If you accidentally have a monitor with slightly less blue than theirs, well, you just modified the slack UI to be a little less blue. Obviously a ToS violation and you shouldn't use them at all.

God forbid if you zoom in on the page to modify their product's resolution/size.

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Re:Bye bye BetterSlack by 0x0 on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @06:32PM (#17872658)
He he, too funny you mention zooming. I've had a bug report going for a while where their emoji sprite sheet gets all messed up if you run at smaller zoom levels. I think they still haven't fixed it properly. :)
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Re:Bye bye BetterSlack by mkoryak on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @09:59PM (#17873606)
Because people who zoom do not deserve to be on the internets.
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Re:Bye bye BetterSlack by admax88q on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @11:37PM (#17873938)
I hope your eyesight stays 20/20 for the rest of your life.

Jerk.

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Re:Bye bye BetterSlack by mattigames on Thursday August 30, 2018 @12:48AM (#17874157)
He was being sarcastic... I think.
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Re:Bye bye BetterSlack by wolco on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @07:41PM (#17873020)
No you are modifying that rendered part. A website can't control what you do with the output.
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