Can no longer search code without being logged in. · community · Discussion #77046
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Select Topic Area Product Feedback Body This is revolting and an anathema to the open source movement. A movement, I might add, Microsoft is abusing here. We're told that this is for security... Bu...

Response from Martin Woodward, GitHub’s VP of Developer Relations:

Sorry for the inconvenience @koepnick - while searching across all repos has required being logged in for a long time, when we enhanced the search capabilities earlier in the 2023 we had to extend this to repos as well (see https://github.blog/changelog/2023-06-07-code-search-now-requires-login/).

This is primarily to ensure we can support the load for developers on GitHub and help protect the servers from being overwhelmed by anonymous requests from bots etc.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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    7 months ago

    The amount of false positives probably wasn’t worth exposing the feature. Not like they’re going to lose customers over this, people who only access Github without an account are probably a net loss for the company.

    Microsoft could build advanced bot detection tools and what have you, but it’s much cheaper to just disable the feature and let people click the login button once every month or so.