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> We take an entirely different approach by building direct integrations...

> Private APIs need to be reverse engineered and are liable to change at any moment, so we had to develop systems to catch breaking changes and are always on alert to address them.

Isn't this still, essentially, screen-scraping? Reverse-engineering private APIs (presumably from their mobile apps, I'd imagine) and doing the abuse/block dance with their protective systems?

parent ceejayoz 4 years ago

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