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Open source devs consider making [bandwidth] hogs pay for every download (www.theregister.com)
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note to mods: this is an opinion article, but it contains a lot of newsworthy statistics and prose on Maven (Java ecosystem package repository) being used as a CDN

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[–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

for context, the full sentence is "Throttling efforts led to “brownouts” via 429 errors, but patterns mutated, forcing a "Whack-a-Mole" game, especially since most consumption is headless and unnoticed." so they tried to use brownouts to control it but it couldn' t stop them

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Yeah ok, I guess that's what's meant.

    I'd be interested to know how the patterns changed - perhaps requests moved to IPv6 which made grouping request origins harder, or maybe too many unconnected users were coming from a single IP and getting false positives (leading to bad UX and support requests).

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