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Re:Show HN: Curl modified to impersonate Firefox and mimic i... by cma on Thursday February 17, 2022 @11:57PM (#30382289)
I've noticed even GitHub has a login wall now for comments on open source projects. They truncate them if you aren't logged in, similar to reddit on mobile, instagram, twitter, etc. Hopefully the mobile version doesn't start pushing you to install some crappy apps where you can't use features like tabbed browsing, tab sync with another machine, etc.
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Re:Show HN: Curl modified to impersonate Firefox and mimic i... by caulk on Friday February 18, 2022 @06:15AM (#30384378)
The reasoning behind that might be the myriad of scrape-and-publish SEO spam pages with GitHub content.
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Re:Show HN: Curl modified to impersonate Firefox and mimic i... by raxxorrax on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:46AM (#30385056)
Not sure if I am buying that excuse. I think they want to nudge people to make accounts and login. Really shady in case of Github and many other sides that are successful because of user content in my opinion.
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Re:Show HN: Curl modified to impersonate Firefox and mimic i... by userbinator on Friday February 18, 2022 @09:30AM (#30386100)
Ironically, that makes the scraped copies more useful because they aren't truncated (at least for older pages) and I can actually get all the content. I wonder if that might be at least why Google seems to be giving them more weight in search result rankings.
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