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Re:Show HN: My small program from 2007 that gave Internet Ex... by roblabla on Friday June 10, 2022 @07:38PM (#31700549)
The last I heard, BetterDiscord was actually against discord's TOS[0].

[0]: https://nitter.42l.fr/discord/status/908000828690182145

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Re:Show HN: My small program from 2007 that gave Internet Ex... by ronsor on Friday June 10, 2022 @08:02PM (#31700669)
It is, but I've never seen anyone get banned for using it.
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Re:Show HN: My small program from 2007 that gave Internet Ex... by donkarma on Saturday June 11, 2022 @11:53AM (#31705428)
Their API is open therefore I don't think they have any right to complain, my homebrew user API for scraping is unbanned and so is BetterDiscord
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Re:Show HN: My small program from 2007 that gave Internet Ex... by roblabla on Saturday June 11, 2022 @12:41PM (#31705843)
Their API being freely accessible is irrelevant. If they decided to ban anyone using their API differently from their official client, they would be entirely within their rights. They probably won't though. It'd be a waste of time for them, bad publicity, and would just make the custom clients harder to detect instead of making them go away.

I don't have beef in the game, FWIW. I have greasemonkey loaded in my firefox and inject a bunch of custom mods in various webpages, including discord, to automate various parts of my workflow. Discord could probably detect it and ban me, but I guess so long as I don't use it for nefarious purposes, they won't.

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