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I can access that Gist without being logged in to a GitHub account.

Same here.

Weird. I concur - I now can see the gist without having to go through a google cached search.

When I was at our local hackerspace, it was demanding that I log into GitHub. When I tried other gists, it did the same.

Now, at home, I'm seeing the content. I can only chalk this up to a one-off weirdness that I just happened to run across.

I've had this happen sometimes too - haven't figured out what triggers it.

Someone sent me a GitHub gist in Discord, and it wouldn't let me see it until I logged in. I clicked the link again, and it let me through just fine. A/B testing maybe?

You're throttled if you share a public IP address with many people who are fetching anonymously (or at least you used to be). Authenticating your requests fixes that. I'm guessing this is similar.

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