asah a day ago

Lol but actually this is a good way to escalate priority. Better yet, point it at various Microsoft sites that aren't provisioned to handle the traffic and let them internally escalate.

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  • shakna 7 hours ago

    In my experience, that'd turn into a list of exceptions, rather than actually fixing the problem.

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bflesch 14 hours ago

I'm not a malicious actor and wouldn't want to interrupt their business, so that's a no-go.

On a technical level, the crawler followed HTTP redirects and had no per-domain rate limiting, so it might have been possible. Now the API seems to have been deactivated.

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