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by zimpenfish 14 days ago
If these subscriptions gave you access to the relevant APIs (via something like IFTTT is fine), I'd be happy to pay.

But if you take away even read-only API access to services[0], I'm a) not going to pay and b) going to stop using your services.

[0] I really don't feel like converting my Instagram/Facebook/WhatsApp accounts to the "business" variants just to get access to the APIs.