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0 pointsldng11mo ago0 comments

That is not an excuse. Wikipedia isn't just any site.

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wslh11mo ago

Not an excuse, a plausible explanation of what's actually happening.

Also plausibly they are trying to kill the site via soft ddos. Then they can sell a service based on all the data they scraped + unauditable censoring.

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0 pointsldng11mo ago0 comments

That is not an excuse. Wikipedia isn't just any site.

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wslh11mo ago

Not an excuse, a plausible explanation of what's actually happening.

franktankbank11mo ago

Also plausibly they are trying to kill the site via soft ddos. Then they can sell a service based on all the data they scraped + unauditable censoring.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse