Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a pic of flower
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Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a pic of flower
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Re: Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a pic of flower
#2> To recap, we were aware of the following at this stage:
> it is a popular chat/social media mobile app used in India
> it sets the User-Agent and Referer to '-'
> it fetches the image from Wikimedia Commons but does not display it
And then they identified which app it was, but it is not revealed
Re: Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a pic of flower
#3> it is a popular chat/social media mobile app used in India
Indians of Hacker News, what are the likely candidates?
Re: Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a pic of flower
#4Guys can you stop the "hello from Hacker news" comments? its spam.
Re: Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a pic of flower
#5This seems interesting from a legal point of view as well:
Is an app downloading, but never displaying, creative commons content infringing on copyright (by not showing correct attribution and violating the CC terms)?
Besides copyright, could this be considered theft of service?
Re: Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a pic of flower
#6TL;DR The thread doesn't name the specific app, but it's Indian, likely a social Android app, probably Say Namaste or Mutton TV. The right app was found by installing apps and checking the connection logs.
Re: Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a pic of flower
#7> To recap, we were aware of the following at this stage: > it is a popular chat/social media mobile app used in India > it sets the User-Agent and Referer to '-' > it fetches the image from Wikimedia Commons but does not display it And then they identified which app it was, but it is not revealed
Any idea why they don't name the app?
Re: Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a pic of flower
#8> To recap, we were aware of the following at this stage: > it is a popular chat/social media mobile app used in India > it sets the User-Agent and Referer to '-' > it fetches the image from Wikimedia Commons but does not display it And then they identified which app it was, but it is not revealed
Any idea why they don't name the app?
Wikimedia is simply trying to be polite and not to publicly shame the company.
Re: Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a pic of flower
#9> it is a popular chat/social media mobile app used in India Indians of Hacker News, what are the likely candidates?
ShareChat may be? Or some video apps like TikTok