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I don't think Slack would ever go after end-users who install something like this. But they could go after the creator, who presumably created a Slack account in order to be able to build the extension, and who therefore must have agreed to the T&Cs. This could include a no-reverse-engineering clause that prohibits the sorts of things that this extension does.


Do you know about an instance where something like that already happened?


Which part? Not going after users or T&Cs that include a prohibition on reverse engineering? If the latter, yes this is pretty common.


I mean suing someone who created a web extension alleging reverse engineering is against ToS


I don't personally know of anything that specifically. But I'd imagine that in most cases, things would unfold as they did here — with the creator pulling the extension rather than risk losing the lawsuit.




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