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It's absolutely substantiated. I can easily reproduce the phenomenon myself using curl from the command line. The key is to use a web browser User-Agent (curl -A), because it doesn't happen for curl's own User-Agent. The delay is consistent and only affects certain Musk-hated domains such as the NYT and Threads. Here's an example, try it yourself:

  curl -v -A 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.6 Safari/605.1.15' https://t.co/d8KWBqT5v6

>>lapcat+(OP)
Don't need to try it for myself (tho I did try some Times links and their profile link, which doesn't delay btw). It's entirely possible with the number of domains, and technologies in play, that there's something more going on that causes the delay.

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>>ChrisA+e7
The "cookies or not" comment misses the point, which is the domain-specificity of the phenomenon.