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Some friends of mine tried this back in uni as a class project. Make an app that sends encrypted messages through Hangouts.
They showed me one of the very serious messages Google's legal team sent them ordering them to stop.
Maybe if you used some kind of 80s sci-fi library cypher where it still looked like human readable words you could do it.
What legal grounds could google possibly have to prevent this
Using a service to interact with a service is usually against the terms of service.
If they were copy pasting by hand, probably nothing.
Isn't that exactly what APIs are for though?
Some let you do it as well, but not all APIs are public.