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Comment by kassner

3 days ago

For a while now, GitHub doesn’t allow you to use the code search anonymously, but everything else is still there. Rate limits are quite damn low though.

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johnisgood  3 days ago

Do you think it has to do with LLMs though? Them disallowing anonymous code search?

  • kassner  3 days ago

    I can't comment on LLMs, but I vaguely remember speculations of it being a mixture of AI training and trying to keep resource utilization at bay. Even generic bots can cause a lot load if you don't have much caching in front of it.

  • frollogaston  3 days ago

    Pre-MS GitHub didn't have code search at all, and once they added it, I think it always required login from the start.

    • johnisgood  3 days ago

      What are we referring to as code search? I cannot view any pages on GitHub without logging in. I tried to reproduce this in a private window but it seems to work, which is weird. I was not logged in to GitHub on Windows and it wants me to login. It might be the extensions I am using (along with an User-Agent switcher). Not sure, I would have to check. All I remember is that I was logged out on Windows and I could not view ANY page from GitHub without logging in, but I can on Linux, tested it in a private window. Odd.

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