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Yet another reason to build a website instead of an "App". It seems to me that all this could be delivered via website or PWA... Then no one could block it. Careful client side caching would help for times of no connectivity.

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I'm a big advocate for PWAs, but this is a backend data issue. American Airlines isn't forcing app stores to take down the app, they're adding anti-scraping measures to prevent the app's backend from being able to request data for flights, shifts, etc.

And how would that solve anything?

It’s the backend that is getting blocked.

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