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This prohibition prevents merchants from technically bypassing Shopify's built-in constraints, including its mandatory checkout flow, and from attempting to analyse or replicate the underlying software.
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Merchants are contractually barred from using technical means to circumvent any service limitation, route orders outside Shopify Checkout, or attempt to reverse engineer the platform.
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"You agree not to work around, bypass, or circumvent any of the technical limitations of the Services, including to process orders outside Shopify's Checkout...or decompile, disassemble or otherwise reverse engineer the Services.— Excerpt from Shopify's Shopify Terms of Service
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This prohibition prevents merchants from technically bypassing Shopify's built-in constraints, including its mandatory checkout flow, and from attempting to analyse or replicate the underlying software.
Merchants are contractually barred from using technical means to circumvent any service limitation, route orders outside Shopify Checkout, or attempt to reverse engineer the platform.
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