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by sjtgraham 4582 days ago
I'm not attacking you, just a friendly opinion. Vine needs to do this or make their API public so you and others can make clients for arbitrary platforms.

> Simply create another account for Vine if you'd like.

No one will do that.

> How else is it supposed to pull up your profile. And the extension is required to emulate the mobile application, modifying the request headers and creating client side requests so the access does not get throttled or noticed by Vine.

Exactly my point.