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Since yesterday a lot of users in Europe found their workflows failing due to Github seemingly randomly throwing HTTP/401 on git clone/git pull when interacting with public repos without authentication.

It was now confirmed by staff member that this indeed is intentional and no further steps are planned at this point.

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[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago

This seems reasonable. Cry all you want but if even smaller sites are getting overwhelmed with bots imagine what it's like for GitHub.

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