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Re:Google has turned off access to sync features for Chromium by simcop2387 on Monday January 25, 2021 @10:41PM (#25912238)
That's not how it's been interpreted in courts in the past, they've taken it to mean that a violation of the terms of service can be a violation of the CFAA, https://www.rcfp.org/scraping-not-violation-cfaa/

Some cases have been found to not be a violation given a public API, but in the case of sync like this, it is not a public API. It's a public facing api but it requires authentication (the keys in question) in order to be used, this means that using google's keys without authorization from google to use them for that purpose would likely be seen as a CFAA violation by the courts.

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Re:Google has turned off access to sync features for Chromium by 411111111111111 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @02:29AM (#25913413)
Absolutely, and I said said the same thing in the original comment.

You can't have an account without agreeing to the ToS, so it's definitely a violation.

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