Re:Bye bye BetterSlack
by gnicholas on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @10:52PM
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I don't think Slack would ever go after end-users who install something like this. But they could go after the creator, who presumably created a Slack account in order to be able to build the extension, and who therefore must have agreed to the T&Cs. This could include a no-reverse-engineering clause that prohibits the sorts of things that this extension does.
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Re:Bye bye BetterSlack
by mattigames on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @11:03PM
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Do you know about an instance where something like that already happened?
Which part? Not going after users or T&Cs that include a prohibition on reverse engineering? If the latter, yes this is pretty common.
Re:Bye bye BetterSlack
by mattigames on Thursday August 30, 2018 @11:30AM
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I mean suing someone who created a web extension alleging reverse engineering is against ToS
I don't personally know of anything that specifically. But I'd imagine that in most cases, things would unfold as they did here — with the creator pulling the extension rather than risk losing the lawsuit.