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It's unfortunate but it's not as bad as Twitter/other forced logins for features. The difference is that making an account is free, you don't have to pay anything and there are no ads, whereas Twitter has incentive because it needs ad revenue and wants to look like it has more people on it
Can't help but feel that's what we're moving towards.
Anyway, I don't buy Github's excuse that the new search 'takes more CPU power'; this must be to prevent scraping data for LLMs. Have you hit the new search rate limits?
This has been the case since the new code search replaced the old one ~9 months ago. The new code search is more resource intensive so Github chose to only make it available to users. I agree that it sucks to not have code search available when logged out, but it's not a new change and I don't think it was done with malicious intent.
what other purpose could it hold other than to harvest your data for their own undisclosed purposes?
Maybe anti-bots or something, but there are other ways to do that. Besides, a bot might just make an account.
This is the same playbook I have followed with success to disconnect from Facebook, Linkedin, Google, Reddit and Twitter. (And Quora. And Medium..) When it's inconvenient it just makes me try to avoid these sites.
This has been the case since the new code search replaced the old one ~9 months ago. The new code search is more resource intensive so Github chose to only make it available to users. I agree that it sucks to not have code search available when logged out, but it's not a new change and I don't think it was done with malicious intent.
Despite their shitty rug-pull https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/53345 >, I do really like Sourcegraph and one doesn't (currently?!) need to be logged in to use it: https://sourcegraph.com/search and they have a handy rewrite pattern such that one can just plug the repo path into the URL for quick searching e.g. https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/JetBrains/intellij-commun...
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I have my cookies autodeleted on a regular basis because I prefer my browsing sessions and activity to not be linked for surveillance purposes. The use of a password manager makes re-logging-in effortless.
I have a specific firefox container group for github and a few other applications so that it's not leaking cookies. No need to relogin.