adversarial interoperability

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adversarial interoperability is the practice of writing code to interoperate with a site or service that is explicitly not designed for interop, like scraping of a website, that has been sometimes necessary to synthesize IndieWeb compatible access.

See Also

• friendly
• Example: don't bother trying to scrape Twitter profiles as they actively seek to recognize such behavior, sending different content and/or block such access.
• Example: Browser add-ons can be designed and built for users to extract their own information from services they sign into, such as the Bridgy add-on.
• specifications
• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability, EFF article with a list of related articles on the topic