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Yeah this is just typical techbro gaslighting. There is no rate-limit and hasn't been for years (it's just default deny), but they refuse to change the wording to reflect.


Would you care to cite your source that GitHub does not apply rate limits to unauthenticated requests?


The parent's experience which mirrors my own - on a clean residential IP that hasn't sent any traffic I hit that "rate-limit" on my first request to the commits list view.

So there is no rate-limit, it's a default deny for unauthenticated requests... which could be fine but at least update the error message to reflect that.


It's a rate limit of 0 RPS to that endpoint




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