alt Hacker Newshttps://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.
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ddtaylor • yesterday at 8:39 PM
Thank you this is exactly the information I was looking for.
"You found the smoking gun!"
RobotToaster • yesterday at 9:44 PM
Given the site is hosted on wordpress.com, who don't charge for bandwidth, it seems to have been completely ineffective.
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> 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.