Is loading a project into TurboWarp against the new ToS?

nembence

ToS wrote:
11. Prohibited Conduct. BY USING THE SERVICE, YOU AGREE NOT TO:
6. access, search, or otherwise use any portion of the Service through the use of any engine, software, tool, agent, device, or mechanism (including spiders, robots, crawlers, and data mining tools) other than the software or search agents provided by the Scratch Team;

Edit: I'm talking about loading a Scratch project by pasting the link, which makes it fetch the project from Scratch's servers

Last edited by nembence (Jan. 22, 2026 20:26:07)

cookedasparagus8

It's a different service, they mean hacked editors.

Fun_Cupcake_i81

That clause read to me like they just don't want people datamining them.
TurboWarp and stuff should be fine.

Last edited by Fun_Cupcake_i81 (Jan. 22, 2026 20:23:27)

hotcrystal

I’m not sure. As said earlier, I think this only really applies to datamining, but terms or service use legal language that is often prone to misinterpretation. It’s best to wait for an ST member to respond.

Last edited by hotcrystal (Jan. 22, 2026 20:24:19)

plum_the_fox

Fun_Cupcake_i81 wrote:
That clause read to me like they just don't want people datamining them.
TurboWarp and stuff should be fine.

people datamine scratch? i have never heard of this (i've heard of datamining games for early stuff or unused)

Rosiun

when green flag clicked
say [:(]
say [Turbowarp should be allowed]
say [also WHY DOES SCRATCH WANT TO KNOW THE STATE I LIVE IN]

Fun_Cupcake_i81

plum_the_fox wrote:
Fun_Cupcake_i81 wrote:
That clause read to me like they just don't want people datamining them.
TurboWarp and stuff should be fine.
people datamine scratch? i have never heard of this (i've heard of datamining games for early stuff or unused)

Probably not, but from a legal POV it's better to say “hey, don't do this” than to just hope people keep not doing it.

plum_the_fox

Fun_Cupcake_i81 wrote:
plum_the_fox wrote:
Fun_Cupcake_i81 wrote:
That clause read to me like they just don't want people datamining them.
TurboWarp and stuff should be fine.
people datamine scratch? i have never heard of this (i've heard of datamining games for early stuff or unused)
Probably not, but from a legal POV it's better to say “hey, don't do this” than to just hope people keep not doing it.

well i guess you never know

Za-Chary

Based on this quote, I believe using TurboWarp is not allowed.

However, what hasn't been brought up before is that the old Terms of Use also disallowed TurboWarp. I don't have a quote at the moment, but it's the same section that people frequently claimed was also disallowing the Scratch 2.0 offline editor … or something like that.

Whether or not the Scratch Team plans to enforce some TurboWarp ban is unclear. To my knowledge, they didn't really do it for the past several years, even though the old Terms of Use disallowed it.

redspacecat

Doesn't this still allow using the official Scratch API?

ToS wrote:
other than the software or search agents provided by the Scratch Team

This seems like the API would be “provided by the Scratch Team”
In which case TurboWarp would still be allowed.

Za-Chary

redspacecat wrote:
This seems like the API would be “provided by the Scratch Team”
In which case TurboWarp would still be allowed.

But TurboWarp itself is not provided by the Scratch Team.

scratchcode1_2_3

Za-Chary wrote:
redspacecat wrote:
This seems like the API would be “provided by the Scratch Team”
In which case TurboWarp would still be allowed.
But TurboWarp itself is not provided by the Scratch Team.

So the Scratch Team can block API access to them whenever they want.

Somebuggy

Rosiun wrote:

when green flag clicked
say [:(]
say [Turbowarp should be allowed]
say [also WHY DOES SCRATCH WANT TO KNOW THE STATE I LIVE IN]

It said to comply with local privacy laws I believe. As there updating there TOS and Pivacy Policy, and every states has different privacy laws. idk legal stuff but I assume that's it lol

hotcrystal

So it’s “technically” not allowed, but it’s unlikely that it’ll never be enforced on Turbowarp?

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