[QGIS-Developer] High load on plugins.qgis.org

[Nyall Dawson]

On Wed, 15 May 2024 at 09:33, Greg Troxel via QGIS-Developer <
qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>   [high plugin load]
>
> Three suggestions:
>
>   is this a distributed problem, or a few abusive addresses?  In
>   openstreetmap I think they would just firewall the addresses in
>   questio.
>
>   please don't use google recapcha or anything else without stellar
>   privacy policies

Does recaptcha even do ANYTHING anymore?  (apart from making us all train
Google's machine learning tools... 😱). I suspect the rise of chatgpt et al
has made their "protections" meaningless.

Nyall


>
>   consider rate-limiting IP addresses instead, 1s delay for a few, then
>   30s or something like that.
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