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Comment on 70% of new NPM packages in last 6 months were spam

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I recently stumbled upon a bunch of repos which were clearly copied from popular projects but then renamed with a random Latin name and published to npm.

I reported some of them as spam, but there were hundreds of them. I couldn't figure out why somebody would waste the time to do that, but now it makes sense.

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