I imagine there is a lot of new pressure on public APIs now that there’s an explosion of vibe coded projects accessing them (some probably quite haphazardly).
Uhm, having a weather api is probably the easiest thing to implement because of how catchable it is. Any public api accidental can be prevented by tiered rate-limiting:
- uber low limits for anon access
- low, but reasonable for register free users
- Up-to-you for paid users
You might say: well, proxies are cheaper than paid plan, and solution to that - charge reasonable price.
