I wonder if there were power surges or some other electrical problem that kept on killing the motors.

I bet it would still be disconcerting to be flying an under-equipped flying bribe, however. A major reason why these security risks exist is because the Qatari 747 lacks important missile detection measures, missile defense measures, EMP hardening, and the secure communications equipment required for exchanging information with the US military.

These deficiencies exist at the behest of Trump. Naturally, the threats he invited by warring against Iran and the safety and security deficiencies he initially brushed past when he rushed the Qatari jet retrofit are now thrust upon others.

It’s a classic Trump moment.

RedLib presently spoofs the OAuth tokens and behavior of the official Android app to access the website, so they are kind of doing something like that already.

The challenge for instance operators is routing the traffic appropriately to avoid the inevitable rate limiting from Reddit for popular RedLib instances.

Instance operators end up using a variety of approaches to get around this such as having multiple RedLib instances each with its own IP so that if one becomes rate limited, their site can switch over to another instance while the rate limit cools down.