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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 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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