This is one thing that I’m still scratching my head about. Like, Reddit said no once, and everyone just shrugged and moved on.

I’d understand if most just threw in the towel completely and never wanted to work with Reddit at all, but it seems most would prefer continue to work on their apps.

And since most apps were free or even FOSS, why not say screw that, and make a (perhaps) last update with a field for the user to enter their own key?

Of course only a few users would take advantage of that, but then there’s even less reason for Reddit to actually care about that, if they could even detect it at all.

I know some forks may pop up, I’m just wondering about the devs themselves.

  • Andreas
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    22 years ago

    The apps’ user agents and other fingerprinting detectors, which are shared by a public app, will get blocked by Reddit for breaking the API terms of service. The only way to avoid getting caught is to have the source code of the app and build it yourself with your own API key, while changing any unique fingerprints of the app.

    • @WhoRogerOP
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      2 years ago

      I was thinking those fields could be editable.

      Ed: Also wondering if it’s actually against the rules or just spez being a twat again.