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It was substantiated by a few dozen HN users, and the Post journalists themselves: X is throttling traffic to some sites and not to others. It appears this thr
by gamblor956 3y ago
It was substantiated by a few dozen HN users, and the Post journalists themselves: X is throttling traffic to some sites and not to others.
It appears this throttling is based in part on the useragent since at least one HN comment noted that the throttling was observed when using curl spoofing a mozilla user agent.
- username332211 3y agoAnd at least one other comment noted that t.co uses completely different mechanism for redirecting requests from a browser and from curl and has been doing that since forever.
- lapcat 3y agoYou're missing the point, which is that a 5 second delay is added only to some very specific Musk-hated sites, such as Threads, Substack, and until the story blew up in the media, the NYT.
- gamblor956 3y agoThe point of the curl test was that the X-imposed delay also occurs in curl requests when spoofing a browser... Meaning, that the delay, which only affects a few specific websites that are either known X competitors or perceived Musk antagonists, is deliberate.