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Re:Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a p... by kzrdude on Thursday February 11, 2021 @04:47AM (#26099819)
> To recap, we were aware of the following at this stage:

> it is a popular chat/social media mobile app used in India

> it sets the User-Agent and Referer to '-'

> it fetches the image from Wikimedia Commons but does not display it

And then they identified which app it was, but it is not revealed

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Re:Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a p... by hackonr on Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:01AM (#26099893)
Any idea why they don't name the app?
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Re:Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a p... by segfaultbuserr on Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:02AM (#26099896)
Wikimedia is simply trying to be polite and not to publicly shame the company.
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Re:Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a p... by lifthrasiir on Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:23AM (#26100028)
In addition to that, one of the culprits here is a widespread sample code that was carelessly copied to a popular app. Shaming does penalize the other culprit but not that one.
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Re:Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a p... by Thiez on Thursday February 11, 2021 @06:30AM (#26100407)
Surely the code sample is not to blame here? Or do you truly think the author of the sample is also deserving of being called a "culprit"?
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Re:Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a p... by lifthrasiir on Thursday February 11, 2021 @08:26AM (#26101219)
Just to be clear, I don't think every author using this image for their sample code is to blame. I'm specifically looking for someone using the public Wikimedia CDN for speed tests [1] and I think that someone is probably the sample code author.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26073450 has located the actual app and intended purpose, for your information.

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Re:Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a p... by luckystarr on Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:03AM (#26099905)
It could provoke an angry mob, which doesn't help anybody.
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Re:Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a p... by Blikkentrekker on Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:20AM (#26100016)
Given that it doesn't display it, and that the image u.r.i. is frequently used in example code rather than something with example.com, it was almost certainly an innocent mistake of copying example code.
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