[dunder_cat]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740 has the earliest writeup that I know of. It was running it via a script and intentionally using cache busting techniques to try to increase load on the hosted wordpress infrastructure.

[jsheard]

> It was running

It still is, uBlocks default lists are killing the script now but if it's allowed to load then it still tries to hammer the other blog.

[dunder_cat]

Ah good to know. My pi-hole actually was blocking the blog itself since the ublock site list made its way into one of the blocklists I use. But I've been just avoiding links as much as possible because I didn't want to contribute.

[RobotToaster]

Given the site is hosted on wordpress.com, who don't charge for bandwidth, it seems to have been completely ineffective.

[Hamuko]

The speculation that I saw was that they'd try to get Wordpress.com to boot him off for being a burden on the overall infrastructure.

[ddtaylor]

Thank you this is exactly the information I was looking for.

"You found the smoking gun!"