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Re:Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a p... by bgdam on Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:08AM (#26099948)
Considering that this seems to have been code accidentally left in while copy pasting from a tutorial, it's very hard to say, without doing the exact same investigation the Wikimedia team did.

There are a lot of apps that have launched in India around that time frame with huge numbers of users thanks to nationalistic rhetoric. They are terrible apps, but they are made in India terrible apps, and that apparently is enough to get a large following in India of late.

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Re:Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a p... by rossdavidh on Thursday February 11, 2021 @12:01PM (#26104017)
To be fair, a nation has to make lots of terrible apps first, before they can make mediocre apps, and then good apps. The logic of wanting homegrown apps could still be correct, even though there is a painful period of terrible apps.

Now, what the U.S. excuse is for its terrible apps, I'm not sure...

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Re:Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a p... by 908B64B197 on Thursday February 11, 2021 @07:46PM (#26109543)
> They are terrible apps, but they are made in India terrible apps, and that apparently is enough to get a large following in India of late.

That's awesome!

Every app has to start somewhere. I mean, even ISRO started by transporting rocket parts on bikes, and now has a satellite around Mars.

https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/science-and-future/fro...

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