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Comment by voidUpdate

> This makes sense. These keys were designed as project identifiers for billing, and can be further restricted with (bypassable) controls like HTTP referer allow-listing. They were not designed as authentication credentials.

Can't you just run up a huge bill for a developer by spamming requests with their key? I don't see how this wasn't always an issue?

parent voidUpdate 8 months ago

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