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by hamburglar 2197 days ago
So you see the problem and you've wasted time on it, and now you've come to the point where you're ok with being put in a situation where you have to tell your users to fuck off.

Just because they don't have a leg to stand on doesn't mean this isn't potentially a huge pain in your ass that you'd probably rather avoid. Imagine if you had a LOT of customers contacting you with this type of problem to the point where you felt like you were painted into a corner and had to support some ad-hoc APIs that weren't designed to be customer-facing and which you might have been planning to remove altogether because they're part of a design that's changing.

This is exactly the situation the obfuscation is attempting to avoid. They're just doing it with a technical solution rather than a human telling another human "don't do that."