[oh_sigh]

Maybe I'm just a techno-optimist, but I suspect big tech companies don't give a hoot about you running "unapproved" software, but rather care about their services being abused and "unapproved" software is just a useful signal that fails on a tiny percentage of total legit users.

[llampx]

You are a lot more charitable than I am. I believe the big tech companies use dark patterns to get us to sign up, improve their metrics and hoover up our data.

[bayindirh]

Just trying to keep services operational is a fine goal to pursue as an operator, but forcing users to small inbound funnels for the service is detrimental too. There needs to be better research to be done to allow simpler ways of operation to continue working.

A browser is becoming a universal agent by itself, but many people (maybe increasingly) use terminal to access to the resources, and stonewalling these paths are never OK in my book.

[saurik]

This is a distinction without a difference.