Re:Show HN: Twitter API Reverse Engineered
by userbinator on Thursday April 13, 2023 @09:23AM
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How is it "stealing" to access a service you already have access to for free?
Go to twitter.com in a browser.
This is just a different type of browser.
Physical analogies never work right with digital data.
Re:Show HN: Twitter API Reverse Engineered
by xeromal on Thursday April 13, 2023 @09:55AM
(#35555517)
I'm sure companies wouldn't mind if a singular person was doing singular things with the API, but when someone uses this API to behave like more than 1 person is where companies get annoyed.
To use an annoying analogy or two, take a penny leave a penny but someone shoves their hand in there and takes all of it.
It costs money to service requests and twitter et all make that money back through advertising and subscriptions. If someone uses an unauthorized API, it could use more than they've budgeted for.
Re:Show HN: Twitter API Reverse Engineered
by dariusj18 on Thursday April 13, 2023 @04:59PM
(#35561985)
Actually they'd also get annoyed if everyone just used something like this for themselves. They want to control your experience. And as usual, remember you are not the customer, you are the product.
There are these places near me where they just heap up a bunch of food. You can literally walk in, grab something to eat and walk out. Nobody will stop you. Yet people for some reason queue up to pay for the food. I believe this is what is wrong with the state of the world today.
Just to spell it out: read it as sarcasm. Do you just steal stuff unless they keep it under lock and key? If usually not what makes this case different?