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So then hide your client better? Just because a company has a policy does not mean you need to follow it.

> So then hide your client better? Just because a company has a policy does not mean you need to follow it.

How, it sounds like they're trying to catch you, e.g. I took...

> and they have banned people for it in the past (if they do something detectable, like enabling A/B testing feature flags that their account ID doesn't match :/)

...to mean they push out changes just to detect the clients who don't conform. I'm sure they could be very sneaky about it in a way that would be hard to "just do better" For instance: have some client behavior change that's hidden behind a feature flag or even calendar date, wait a long time until all official clients are updated, then trigger it and ban the laggards who can be assumed to be using an unofficial client.



because erect.horse does not exist... yet...




I love that they specified that links in ads do not count


Oh hey writtenone, arkhiver, itsprettygood, han1, nohell, 382hi, dekdrop, smalltorch - welcome back. The .com does look better than the .ph, but.. I don't suppose this aggressive self-promotion will end differently.


You forgot about me :P

Discovered a way to extract debug info from archive.today while attempt to reverse engineer its design to build competing archiver service





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