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Why do sites need to "release" front-ends? Everybody can write javascript clients to send GETs and POSTs to any company's back-end server!

Making it a single button that enables a different theme that a professional designer somewhere has signed off on is a much better user experience for almost everybody when compared to the "write your own CSS" option. Even if you automate it with a browser extension, you're still giving that extension read+write access to the site, hopefully it's trustworthy!




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