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I've spent some time looking into this and found very little. The closest I could get is that if you are a Google Cloud customer, it forbids you from reverse engineering other Google APIs that are not documented as supported, which would probably include this use case. No idea if they're a Google Cloud customer though.

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> No idea if they're a Google Cloud customer though.

Even if they are, I have doubts that’s enforceable either. One doesn’t need to reverse engineer an API to consume that API, and it’s hard to find out who did the reverse engineering. The reverse engineering might be accomplished by someone else who’s not a Google’s Cloud customer, like an unrelated person answering a question on stackoverflow.com.

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