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by max51 219 days ago
That doesn't surprise me. I find it hard to believe it's a pure coincidence that I would get stuck in the loop regularly when I'm on the university wifi but it would never happen anywhere else ever. After a dozen try, I would remote connect to my home pc and it would magically work on the first try every single time.
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fooker 219 days ago
Someone from your university tried to scrape data from Google.

I know it's still not justified, but it's the easy solution that works for preventing DOS attacks.

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max51 218 days ago
>Someone from your university tried to scrape data from Google.

Kinda wild that someone scraping google's data would prevent me from getting into my PAID (>90$/yr) Dropbox account. That experience is a big part of why I pay extra to host my host data on my own server now.

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fooker 218 days ago
Yep, that's how the internet works now unfortunately.

Decentralization, hosting your own stuff, is great until you run into DDOS attacks and have to make maintaining your server a full time job. Sure you have the skills (or can acquire it), but do you have the time ?

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