It all depends on the rate - there's applications out there capable of hitting the site hundreds, maybe thousands of times a minute and those are the ones they're really concerned about. If I remember correctly, the words in the terms and conditions were added many years ago because some tool had written a an application initially designed for load testing that could spawn hundreds of simultaneous sessions and then thought it would be a bright idea to market it to people desperate for Glastonbury tickets.
Once you go below 60 per minute - they generally can't tell the difference between a human and a browser plugin but at that point the refreshing is just automating what you could achieve yourself rather than doing anything above and beyond.
Is it possible to use refreshanator app but not go above 60 hits per min?
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Is it possible to use refreshanator app but not go above 60 hits per min?