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    Anti-Piracy Placeholder: Unique ID for a user (that the user doesn't know)

    Anyone reverse engineering your program will also know the exact URLs and Responses for that api (just by reading the documentation); so they can 1) find it (eg. look for the url if not obfuscated) and remove it, or 2) imitate it & always give a success response. Yes both of these are also...
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    Anti-Piracy Placeholder: Unique ID for a user (that the user doesn't know)

    The placeholders already act like a pseudo license, without the user actually having to generate a license key; as you can disable any specific file (%%__NONCE__%%) or all of a specific users files (%%__USER__%%). Making the user generate a key seems like a unnecessary step to using a product...
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    Anti-Piracy Placeholder: Unique ID for a user (that the user doesn't know)

    The %%__USER__%% placeholder is a good idea in theory, but it's very trivial to find it in a plugin's source code. What i'm suggesting is a secondary ID; that would be based on the user id but encrypted on a per-resource or per-resource author basis, so the resource author can reverse the...
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    TeamTrees Name Colour?

    What's really the point of having a extra step in the donation? Extra fees for processing just to get a green name?
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