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Re:Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds a... by johncolanduoni on Friday February 08, 2019 @03:19PM (#19118262)
What is so special about network requests that should be an exception here? If you sign a lease for an apartment that requires you to get liability insurance from a separate provider of your choice, do you also think you have every moral right to not purchase such insurance because it's a different "endpoint"?
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Re:Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds a... by leothecool on Friday February 08, 2019 @04:49PM (#19119011)
What is special in this case is that the first request's payload contains the address of the second request.

It would be like not knowing what insurance company you will have to use until you walk into your apartment for the first time.

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Re:Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds a... by baddox on Friday February 08, 2019 @08:12PM (#19120065)
Isn’t the penalty for not getting the liability insurance that you get evicted? I don’t think there are criminal charges or damages that would be rewarded. So that’s just the same as Spotify suspending your account.
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