Microsoft is Locking Down Search for Public Code on GitHub

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Enshittification begins again

This has been happening for a little while now. I’ve started cloning repos and using local searches instead.
And “little while” is, I think, at least a year. If not more.
I think about half a year, assuming that’s what they mean in this blog post: github.blog/…/2023-06-07-code-search-now-requires…
Code search now requires login

Code search now requires login

The GitHub Blog

You’re absolutely right. I was thinking about global, unscoped search. That sucks.

Searching code globally across GitHub.com already requires users to login, but starting today, we are extending that to include repository-scoped search as well.