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@Xaldos Cannot risk it because if they dont and close this backdoor too, I am doomed. Also it makes me wonder if they did this intentionally because their pricing is also quite high and is quite a sophisticated service. They have all kinds of rate limits on the apis but none on the explorer.
Probably to sort out the pros from the n00bs. -
@datawraith If you are charging a shit load of money for entering your house from the front door and still you leave your window open, its totally your fault.
And the woman-dress analogy does not make sense at all in this context.
There is this service that I want to use (wont name it for privacy/legal reasons) and I have created a trial account which gives me a limited access to their apis. However the usage is where things are interesting.
The api access is restricted to some 1000 calls per trial account. But also they have a explorer option which lets to have the functionality as a web app like a dashboard and the explorer usage has unlimited access.
Now since I didnt want to exhaust my api limit, I let my service call the explorer apis instead. Is this ethically wrong or it is the fault of the service providers that they have such a big gaping hole in their licensing?
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