[dyeje]

I imagine there is a lot of new pressure on public APIs now that there’s an explosion of vibe coded projects accessing them (some probably quite haphazardly).

[pmdr]

It's probably just good old-fashioned greed. Worked for X and Reddit, why wouldn't it work for them?

[dyeje]

I wasn’t justifying the move, just a related thought that came up after seeing a few articles about Neon and Supabase having an explosion of new apps.

[0x457]

Uhm, having a weather api is probably the easiest thing to implement because of how catchable it is. Any public api accidental can be prevented by tiered rate-limiting:

- uber low limits for anon access

- low, but reasonable for register free users

- Up-to-you for paid users

You might say: well, proxies are cheaper than paid plan, and solution to that - charge reasonable price.

[sitzkrieg]

you should see what happened when people finally understood XMLHttpRequest!