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What part about Google accounts and tokens did you not understand? Bots can’t freeload if your services are protected by service credentials and fees. A signif
by 0x445442 3y ago
What part about Google accounts and tokens did you not understand? Bots can’t freeload if your services are protected by service credentials and fees.
A significant part of the fees Ticketmaster charges goes to mitigating bots reserving seats and then reselling them on the secondary market. This problem can be easily addressed by requiring reserves and purchases to be made only from registered accounts. They choose not to do this because they’ve determined the cost of combating fraud is offset by allowing non-account holders to make purchases for events.
- acdha 3y agoThe person they are replying to confabulated a “Right of computer owner to access public network resources and display it in the way he wants”. If such a right to private property existed, it would lead to exactly the problem the person you’re replying to asked about, which is why it doesn’t exist.