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Rainmeter News • Re: Skin Authors: openstreetmap usage

One reasonable suggestion posted on the Rainmeter GitHub thread is that skin authors create their own UserAgent string by including #CURRENTCONFIG# or #ROOTCONFIG# to identify the skin or skin suite...
I really hate to be the non positive guy in such matters, but ... careful with what you concede as reasonable when it comes to others' actions. It's only reasonable as long as your own skin suite is not banned for misuse by some user. Judging by the fact that they already blocked an application module and not the users abusing that module, you - or anyone else using their service in your skins - might end up in the same category with the "violating" Rainmeter WebParser, even after setting a custom HTTP referrer / user agent. Remember DeviantArt and how much they "cared" for requests to reconsider their actions and have such things lifted. Just saying - hopefully I'm wrong with this. Image may be NSFW.
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Also, there's also the possibility of folks setting their user agent to some other skin or suite (or letting the same user agent as the original skin they are modifying), so one could have all kinds of surprises in that regard (e.g. one skin being the cluprit, and the user agent of another being blocked).

Statistics: Posted by Yincognito — Today, 9:49 pm



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