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drdaeman on Sept 10, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why you should not pirate Google’s geo APIs

Aren't the same exact APIs are serving as backend to that "public version"?

If so, looking at whatever data's on your wire (browsers are subclass of user-agents for a reason), and then doing similar requests by example does not make you sign some agreement with Google, right?

enneff on Sept 10, 2013 | [–]

> Aren't the same exact APIs are serving as backend to that "public version"?

Nope.

Killswitch on Sept 10, 2013 | [–]

Just because their app consumes their API doesn't mean that the app and it's endusers are subject to the same terms as the API.

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