Why is getting a manifest considered against pull rate limits?

Docker Hub
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I’m writing some tooling that is fetching tags and image manifests (not image layers/blobs) and I’m getting rate-limited at 200 requests per hour.

Is this intentional? Why is doing a HEAD/GET for a small amount of metadata considered a costly operation for Docker Hub?

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I just found this topic and realized you also asked about it in another topic where I replied

So short answer here, yes, it is intentional, but I have no information about why.

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This is a community forum (with fellow Docker user). If you want to suggest a change for this, I would send an email to support or billing.

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