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“A threshold has been reached. We are effectively being DDoSed. If we could, we would charge them for this waste of our time,” wrote Daniel Stenberg, original author and lead of the curl project, on ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...