[yjftsjthsd-h]

> Are these loser companies who don’t want to cache on their end

Google couldn't be bothered to cache; I would guess this before anything else.

https://drewdevault.com/blog/Google-has-been-DDoSing-sourceh...

[Barbing]

> each IP address still clones the same repositories 8-10 times per hour.

Dumb! When was this fixed and don’t say never :)

[inigyou]

That just sounds like a CI system. Surely almost every one of us is responsible for at least one CI process that doesn't cache dependencies.