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clean up the question considerably, so it reads like a bug report
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Global Flag Summary userscript is no longer working because of the new restrictions imposed by Stack Exchangedue to rate-limiting changes

Stack Exchange recently added 3 new restrictions to "prevent unauthorized access toWhen running the network". Global Flag Summary userscript was 1 of 5 automatic processes added to a community made list of process that would potentially be broken by the new restrictions. Stack Exchange said that "we do not believe our efforts will impact a significant number of community tools", but Global Flag Summary appears to have been, err... impacted. Only 57 out of the 244 it was looking for (for this purpose a per-site meta and the main site are different sites) it calls to were actually reachedsuccessful, makingand the script nearly uselessrest produced error status codes. Note thatMost produced 404 status codes, atbut towards the end of running the script, it started to actually to changethe response code changed from 404 to rate-limited. Note thatWhen I manually tried to access about 20 of the links that were listed as "404"s and, they all worked fine. 

In addition to the above, itrunning this script also logged me out network-wide and gave me a Cloudfare thingchallenge when I tried to access SE again. 

Here is a screenshot of a small section of the errors:

enter image description hereA list of sites indicating indicating failure to load data for a number of sites with error code 404, and one line that says rate-limited.

Stack Exchange recently added 3 new rate limits to "prevent unauthorized access to the network," and these changes may be the cause of the new 404/rate-limiting errors.

Could this please be fixed?

Global Flag Summary is no longer working because of the new restrictions imposed by Stack Exchange

Stack Exchange recently added 3 new restrictions to "prevent unauthorized access to the network". Global Flag Summary was 1 of 5 automatic processes added to a community made list of process that would potentially be broken by the new restrictions. Stack Exchange said that "we do not believe our efforts will impact a significant number of community tools", but Global Flag Summary appears to have been, err... impacted. Only 57 out of the 244 it was looking for (for this purpose a per-site meta and the main site are different sites) were actually reached, making the script nearly useless. Note that, at the end, it started to actually to change from 404 to rate-limited. Note that I tried about 20 of the links that were "404"s and they all worked fine. In addition to the above, it also logged me out network-wide and gave me a Cloudfare thing when I tried to access SE again. Here is a screenshot of a small section of the errors:

enter image description here

Could this please be fixed?

Global Flag Summary userscript is no longer working due to rate-limiting changes

When running the Global Flag Summary userscript, 57 out of the 244 sites it calls to were successful, and the rest produced error status codes. Most produced 404 status codes, but towards the end of running the script, the response code changed from 404 to rate-limited. When I manually tried to access about 20 of the links that were listed as "404"s, they all worked fine. 

In addition to the above, running this script also logged me out network-wide and gave me a Cloudfare challenge when I tried to access SE again. 

Here is a screenshot of a small section of the errors:

A list of sites indicating indicating failure to load data for a number of sites with error code 404, and one line that says rate-limited.

Stack Exchange recently added 3 new rate limits to "prevent unauthorized access to the network," and these changes may be the cause of the new 404/rate-limiting errors.

Could this please be fixed?

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Stack Exchange recently added 3 new restrictions to "prevent unauthorized access to the network". Global Flag SummaryGlobal Flag Summary was 1 of 5 automatic processes added to a community made list of process that would potentially be broken by the new restrictions. Stack Exchange said that "we do not believe our efforts will impact a significant number of community tools", but Global Flag Summary appears to have been, err... impacted. Only 57 out of the 244 it was looking for (for this purpose a per-site meta and the main site are different sites) were actually reached, making the script nearly useless. Note that, at the end, it started to actually to change from 404 to rate-limited. Note that I tried about 20 of the links that were "404"s and they all worked fine. In addition to the above, it also logged me out network-wide and gave me a Cloudfare thing when I tried to access SE again. Here is a screenshot of a small section of the errors:

enter image description here

Could this please be fixed?

Stack Exchange recently added 3 new restrictions to "prevent unauthorized access to the network". Global Flag Summary was 1 of 5 automatic processes added to a community made list of process that would potentially be broken by the new restrictions. Stack Exchange said that "we do not believe our efforts will impact a significant number of community tools", but Global Flag Summary appears to have been, err... impacted. Only 57 out of the 244 it was looking for (for this purpose a per-site meta and the main site are different sites) were actually reached, making the script nearly useless. Note that, at the end, it started to actually to change from 404 to rate-limited. Note that I tried about 20 of the links that were "404"s and they all worked fine. In addition to the above, it also logged me out network-wide and gave me a Cloudfare thing when I tried to access SE again. Here is a screenshot of a small section of the errors:

enter image description here

Could this please be fixed?

Stack Exchange recently added 3 new restrictions to "prevent unauthorized access to the network". Global Flag Summary was 1 of 5 automatic processes added to a community made list of process that would potentially be broken by the new restrictions. Stack Exchange said that "we do not believe our efforts will impact a significant number of community tools", but Global Flag Summary appears to have been, err... impacted. Only 57 out of the 244 it was looking for (for this purpose a per-site meta and the main site are different sites) were actually reached, making the script nearly useless. Note that, at the end, it started to actually to change from 404 to rate-limited. Note that I tried about 20 of the links that were "404"s and they all worked fine. In addition to the above, it also logged me out network-wide and gave me a Cloudfare thing when I tried to access SE again. Here is a screenshot of a small section of the errors:

enter image description here

Could this please be fixed?

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Global Flag Summary is no longer working because of the new restrictions imposed by Stack Exchange

Stack Exchange recently added 3 new restrictions to "prevent unauthorized access to the network". Global Flag Summary was 1 of 5 automatic processes added to a community made list of process that would potentially be broken by the new restrictions. Stack Exchange said that "we do not believe our efforts will impact a significant number of community tools", but Global Flag Summary appears to have been, err... impacted. Only 57 out of the 244 it was looking for (for this purpose a per-site meta and the main site are different sites) were actually reached, making the script nearly useless. Note that, at the end, it started to actually to change from 404 to rate-limited. Note that I tried about 20 of the links that were "404"s and they all worked fine. In addition to the above, it also logged me out network-wide and gave me a Cloudfare thing when I tried to access SE again. Here is a screenshot of a small section of the errors:

enter image description here

Could this please be fixed?