This was announced https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-08-updated-rate-limits...

The headline reads as if this is intended behaviour but it's clearly a bug (and it doesn't even occur when I try)

I assume they're trying to keep ai bots from strip mining the whole place.

Or maybe your IP/browser is questionable.

Misleading headline? It links to an unresolved GH issue, so no evidence that there is an actual change of policy (rather than, let’s say, a bug, or a temporary hiccup)

Also https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/157887 "Persistent HTTP 429 Rate Limiting on *.githubusercontent.com Triggered by Accept-Language: zh-CN Header" but the comments show examples with no language headers.

I encountered this too once, but thought it was a glitch. Worrying if they can't sort it.

I remember getting this error a few months ago, this does not seem like a temporary glitch. They dont want llm makers to slurp all the data.

There is nothing worse than some Muppet who finds what's probably almost certainly a mistake or config error and then posts alarmist and "This is now a fact" posts.

Post it like "I don't seem to be able to view unless I login" or "Does anyone else find that they need to login" not as a statement of fact.

Time for Mozilla (and other open-source projects) to move repositories to sourcehut/Codeberg or self-hosted Gitlab/Forgejo?

Just tried it on chrome incognito on iOS and do hit this 429 rate limit :S That sucks, it’s already bad enough when GitHub started enforcing login to even do a simple search.