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by embedding-shape 3 days ago
You have to be a bit more restrictive today yes, but if you weren't already overrun with bots and hacking attempts while hosting a public service many years ago, you probably weren't hosting a even medium-popular website in the first place. Same thing goes today. Slap a rate limit on it and be done with it.
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Yes, externalize the expense of dealing with it to each operator.
Been like that since what, early 2000s?
It... wasn't okay then. And now it's scaled up immensely.