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91 points richardzhang | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 23:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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Uehreka ◴[19 Nov 24 00:49 UTC] No.42179015[source]▶
This will not end well.

If someone with millions or billions of dollars doesn’t have an official API after operating for years, that’s because they don’t want to have one. You may receive a Cease and Desist letter, or they might block your IPs, or just scramble their markup in ways that are hard to figure out. Whatever their approach, they likely have more money and manpower to throw at stopping you than you have to evade them, especially if you’re doing this to multiple large and powerful companies.

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1. melody_calling ◴[19 Nov 24 02:39 UTC] No.42179615[source]▶
I'd be surprised if this was even noticed at all.

It's a third-party client making authentication and data collection requests, just like the hundreds of other credential stuffing toolkits (OpenBullet et al.) that are smashing the Venmo platform 24/7.

The most likely outcome for anyone using this is their account becoming restricted for unusual access patterns by the existing models already in place.