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Comment by max51

3 months ago

That doesn't surprise me. I find it hard to believe it's a pure coincidence that I would get stuck in the loop regularly when I'm on the university wifi but it would never happen anywhere else ever. After a dozen try, I would remote connect to my home pc and it would magically work on the first try every single time.

Someone from your university tried to scrape data from Google.

I know it's still not justified, but it's the easy solution that works for preventing DOS attacks.

  • >Someone from your university tried to scrape data from Google.

    Kinda wild that someone scraping google's data would prevent me from getting into my PAID (>90$/yr) Dropbox account. That experience is a big part of why I pay extra to host my host data on my own server now.

    • Yep, that's how the internet works now unfortunately.

      Decentralization, hosting your own stuff, is great until you run into DDOS attacks and have to make maintaining your server a full time job. Sure you have the skills (or can acquire it), but do you have the time ?