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> When Marsh opens her Instacart shopping app, she sees promising orders disappear before she can act. “No human can click that fast,” she said. “Instacart need
by galkk 6y ago
> When Marsh opens her Instacart shopping app, she sees promising orders disappear before she can act. “No human can click that fast,” she said. “Instacart needs to fix this. These bots are literally taking the food off my kids’ table.”
While I understand the wish to get the best/any batch, this is significant exaggeration. If your kids food depends on getting the batches from the website, then you have much larger problem than bots.
- raxxorrax 6y agoTrue, although I understand the complaint. Many platforms succumb to bots and power users and they often loose their appeal from that. Most prominent example for me is ebay. Didn't really used it to save money, but it was interesting to browse. Now there is little opportunity for the average user to even visit it, or at least much less so.
- WJW 6y agoIn related news, lions have sued that the invention of spears by early tribes makes it significantly more difficult to hunt humans and it's taking food off their cubs' table. This sounds very much like ordinary competition that any self-employed person would have to deal with. If I insist on using assembler to make websites for clients while my competitors use Rails, it's not a secret who is going to do better in the long run.