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It suggests it only as long as someone doesn't read the article.

The way I read it, they were trying to communicate the fact that a customer fiddling with their own configuration brought down large swathes of the internet for everybody else. That absolutely deserves to be in the headline.



>It suggests it only as long as someone doesn't read the article.

Which is why it's clickbait. Sensational title, humdrum article.


That's not clickbait, it's editiorial discretion. A customer's actions did take down Fastly for other customers. What about that is misleading or untrue?




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