flightradar24

Because it has been for a "good thing". In 2026 the stealing has escalated and is now up to 25% of all FR24 traffic. At some point we can't support unlimited stealing. We have tried to get an agreement with FSTL for years but they are not cooperating.

Like I wrote. FR24 never had an agreement with FSLTL. Never! FSLTL has been stealing data for many, many years and they didn't even credit FR24, and now they blame FR24 when they stop stealing.

First and most important - Flightradar24 and FSLTL never had an agreement. FSLTL has been steeling Flightradar24 data for many years without permission which is breaking the terms and conditions. Secondary, Flighradar24 never had a free API, so once again FSLTL has just been stealing data for years without paying. FSLTL has been trying to get an agreement by saying “We have been stealing it for free so give to us for free instead” Data stealing has become a very big problem for Flightradar24 and some of the recent downtimes have been triggered by very extensive data stealing and scraping by an increasing number of different robots, bots and AI tools. Flightradar24 is paying for every request and every byte downloaded, so Fllightradar24 has to pay more and more every month, for data stolen by robots, bots and other data tools. Some of these stolen data is then used to create competing products to Flightradar24 and make money on it, so Flightradar24 first has to pay for receivers, crew, development and data centers. Then people steal it, sell it and make money on the data without paying a cent. That is why Flightradar24 has started to track down on all data stealing.