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GitHub is introducing rate limits for unauthenticated pulls, API calls, and web access (github.blog)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by chaospatterns@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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An update from GitHub: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159123#discussioncomment-13148279

The rates are here: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/using-the-rest-api/rate-limits-for-the-rest-api?apiVersion=2022-11-28

60 req/hour for unauthenticated users
5000 req/hour for authenticated - personal
15000 req/hour for authenticated - enterprise org

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I see the "just create an account" and "just login" crowd have joined the discussion. Some people will defend a monopolist no matter what. If github introduced ID checks à la Google or required a Microsoft account to login, they'd just shrug and go "create a Microsoft account then, stop bitching". They don't realise they are being boiled and don't care. Consoomer behaviour.

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[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Or we just realize that GitHub without logging in is a service we are getting for free. And when there's something free, there's someone trying to exploit it. Using GitHub while logged in is also free and has none of these limits, while allowing them to much easier block exploiters.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 1 hour ago

I would like to remind you that you are arguing for a monopolist. I'd agree with you if it were for a startup or mid-sized company that had lots of competition and was providing a good product being abused by competitors or users. But Github has a quasi-monopoly, is owned by a monopolist that is part of the reason other websites are being bombarded by requests (aka, they are part of the problem), and you are sitting here arguing that more people should join the monopoly because of an issue they created.

Can you see the flaws in reasoning in your statements?

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