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I was going to give them the benefit of the doubt since it was anecdotal, but when he got to the "bugs in ad-blockers" explanation, the bullshit was spread a bi
by Tao3300 4y ago
I was going to give them the benefit of the doubt since it was anecdotal, but when he got to the "bugs in ad-blockers" explanation, the bullshit was spread a bit to thick for someone innocent.
This is ableist discrimination and it's offensive. I require an ad-blocker to make the web usable with ADHD-PI.
- titaniczero 4y agoSounds credible to me. Some adblockers and lists block bot detection scripts on purpose, in some cases it could lead the system to flag you as a bot. What they should do in these cases is to fallback to a captcha or something like that.
- madjam002 4y agoWhat's interesting is when I booked the tickets, half way through the purchase journey I got a popup saying "Are you human?" with a reCAPTCHA to verify that I was human. They still tried to charge me £10 at the end for a "System Surcharge".
- titaniczero 4y agoYeah, that’s them being greedy lol
- baby 4y agoWhy would an airline have a bot problem?
- asdadsdad 4y agoafaik airlines pay a surcharge to systems that have authoritative data on flights (GDS/Amadeus) iff their look/book ratio is too anomalous, which is exactly the kind of number scraping bots really play with
- froggertoaster 4y ago
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