>I do this as it’s faster than dealing with site admins
the issue i take with you is a user approached you to find out why it wasn't working -- it wasn't working because we have security limits in place to prevent scraping from multiple IPs sharing the same user agent. this is due in large part to us being scraped by over 2 million brazillian IPs. it was automated. however, the automated bans are escalating in nature, so he may have not seen that immediately and it may have taken several hour, days long bans before he was able to make a complaint about it, and by then its usually permament.
instead of you asking about it, like most people would do (i get emails daily about it, in fact) you chose to deliberately misrepresent your app to our nitter servers. to me, that is malicious in nature because that is exactly what it is. you changed your user agent to mask who you were to the server. thats how you earned the permanent ban. not for any other reason other than that.