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Preventing unauthorized automated access to the Stack Exchange network (meta.stackexchange.com)
6 points by immibis 9 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Yeah makes sense


TL;DR: After shutting down public database dumps earlier this year, Stack Exchange continues further down the Reddit path of closing off access to data by rate-limiting IP addresses and all-but-blocking Microsoft IP addresses (I guess because they do not pay for their AI data).

Also, I received a 7-day ban for using the word "enshittification", so don't do that.




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