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I think it's an acceptable response. Not only there's no SLA, but people are free to not provide a service to misbehaving user agents. It's like rejecting connections from Tor.

If anything, a 429 is a nice heads up. It could have been worse; she could have redirected those requests to a separate URL with an... unpleasant content, like a certain domain that redirects to I-don't-know-what whenever they detect the Referer header is from HN.

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As interesting as that site is, and as much as I sympathise with the author's plight, that site's behavior is so anti-me that I'm going to ignore it whenever/wherever it pops up. I'm not trolling the author, I'm not calling them names or anything, I was just interested in the technical stuff. I wish them good luck.

I think that's the whole point - that author won't begrudge you for not visiting their site. They detest HN ideologically, so losing HNer traffic won't ruin their day.

Rachel isn't serving adverts on on her blog. She's not trying to sell you on her consulting business.

So my question to you is... ...why is it so anti-you, and why should it be different?

I don't mean Rachel. Please read my parent a few times - that's what I was answering to. You might not know what my parent is referring to, but it's a different blog.

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