<story><title>Bye bye BetterSlack</title><url>https://g3rv4.com/2018/08/bye-bye-betterslack</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whoisjuan</author><text>I think you can safely ignore this cease and desist. Just change the name and add a disclaimer so your users know that by using your extension they are violating their acceptable use policy.&lt;p&gt;This is no different than any user writing a Tampermonkey script to modify any website they want to modify. Even further, this is no different than a user opening the Dev Tools console and modifying things there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kodablah</author><text>&amp;gt; I think you can safely ignore this cease and desist&lt;p&gt;Will you cover his legal costs for choosing this decision? Right matters less than resources if it&amp;#x27;s expensive to even be right. You can state your case here on HN without repercussion, not so when being sued (it costs to even state your case reasonably due to hazards of self-defense and it costs dearly if you lose).</text></comment>
<story><title>Bye bye BetterSlack</title><url>https://g3rv4.com/2018/08/bye-bye-betterslack</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whoisjuan</author><text>I think you can safely ignore this cease and desist. Just change the name and add a disclaimer so your users know that by using your extension they are violating their acceptable use policy.&lt;p&gt;This is no different than any user writing a Tampermonkey script to modify any website they want to modify. Even further, this is no different than a user opening the Dev Tools console and modifying things there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>He should talk to a lawyer, especially if he accepted a binding agreement by using Slack that forbids any of the research he did to figure out how to get his integrations to work.</text></comment>