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by ogou 92 days ago
It's more than time. That program requires explicit authorization from them. It's designed for larger corporate integrations, not developer experiments. I seriously I doubt I would get approved even if I went through all the paperwork. It's not just a matter of just signing up for an API key.

As for your plan, gathering user data is probably the main thing they want to prevent.