this disruption affected legitimate developers
The Verdict
The Google team has publicly acknowledged that this disruption affected legitimate developers using proxies and they are actively adjusting the filters to stop penalizing standard proxy users.
Assuming this was malicious bot spam
the OAuth endpoints are currently so fragile
will instead use the quota attached to the API key.
the aggressive consumer security layer is blocking the CLI before it can ever check your quota.
Google's security filters frequently flag the connection as suspicious.
The bug stems from how those consumer web endpoints handle automated traffic.
Under normal circumstances
makes it verbose so you can see the proxy handshake
The Most Common Culprit
command-line interfaces often swallow underlying network timeouts or SSL errors and output this generic "high demand" fallback message instead.
is experiencing a massive spike in global traffic.
gets automatically bumped up from the standard free tier.
is generally sufficient for approval
Usage tiers
Tier 3
protect against abuse
help maintain fair usage
Free tier
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