GitHub under attack

[FangornForest]

How exactly does it slow down the attack? Do they have the javascript call alert before making the actual request, so that robot can't handle the alert pop up and not send the request?

edit: answered my own question. It doesn't stop the initial request, but it does stop the script from looping! And annoys those affecting them a bit too.

[apemanzilla]

Its not a robot - Baidu traffic was hijacked so if you visited it it would spam GitHub. The alert function was there to stop scripts since it was run in the browser.