I really would like to use Hetzner but their ToS [1] forbids any cryptocurrency related usage. I only want to archive block transaction data (think a block explorer). I don't know why they are so aggressive with that, I would understand PoW and PoS ban but not a hole industry.
This is also used by some payment processors (probably belongs to banks).
I can relate as I was in Korea some months ago and in order to buy some concert tickets the platform required me to install that shitty thing. I end up not buying the tickets as it was not possible to me to install anything in my corporate machine.
As you said, my friend point out people don't have it installed in their personal computers but use a third party one which brings more insecurity.
Nice article. I wrote that lua "wrapper" 2 years ago. I used math.js to avoid RCE on bots, turns out math.js API is vulnerable but doesn't affect the wrapper.
And then Microsoft built Edge and tries to be Chrome too with UA as
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.10136
What about API library developers [1]? We haven't received anything yet but thanks to us others can build bots. I invented the Telegram bots back in 2014 [2] (there wasn't API) and haven't received any thanks from Telegram.