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Open source devs consider making [bandwidth] hogs pay for every download (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Aatube@thriv.social to c/tech@programming.dev

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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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[–] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 1 month 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).