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Re:Bye bye BetterSlack by gnicholas on Thursday August 30, 2018 @03:47AM (#17874774)
Which part? Not going after users or T&Cs that include a prohibition on reverse engineering? If the latter, yes this is pretty common.
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Re:Bye bye BetterSlack by mattigames on Thursday August 30, 2018 @11:30AM (#17877514)
I mean suing someone who created a web extension alleging reverse engineering is against ToS
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Re:Bye bye BetterSlack by gnicholas on Thursday August 30, 2018 @12:30PM (#17878029)
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.
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