Repository Now Limited by GitHub – Here’s Why

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This was originally in the HN submission title, but this comment from the maintainer is mind-boggling:

> GitHub has confirmed that the block.txt file in the repo has been responsible for over 1 petabyte of bandwidth per day — mainly due to automated downloads (likely from Adobe’s Chrome extension). This is way beyond what a single repo is designed to handle and poses a risk of the repository being temporarily disabled as early as June 13.

https://github.com/Bon-Appetit/porn-domains/discussions/70#d...

Adobe appears to be actually responsible for the DDoS.

> i think we might have finally tracked it to the GenAIWebpageBlocklist for Adobe Reader plugin on Chrome

> Adobe has acknowledged the issue and removed the URL reference from their Chrome extension. The updated version is already submitted to the Chrome Web Store and should roll out to users in the coming days

> GitHub has removed the content warning from the repository and will continue to monitor bandwidth usage

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