Ask HN: "Creative" ways to handle abusive http traffic?

Re:Ask HN: "Creative" ways to handle abusive http traffic? by probably_wrong on Saturday May 26, 2018 @09:02AM (#17161783)

Google did this to me. I wrote a script to find the cheapest flight in matrix.itasoftware.com (now Google Flights), and ran it once per hour. Pretty soon they started giving me only the most expensive flights, as in, 7K+ for a 1K flight.

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Re:Ask HN: "Creative" ways to handle abusive http traffic? by heyoni on Saturday May 26, 2018 @10:53AM (#17162345)

That sounds like someone personally turned this on for you. Did you try to mask yourself and repeat?

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Re:Ask HN: "Creative" ways to handle abusive http traffic? by probably_wrong on Monday May 28, 2018 @05:54AM (#17171567)

As funny as that would be, I doubt it was done personally against me - who would even take the time to block one person from getting one single cheap flight slightly cheaper?

But I didn't try anything fancy. In retrospective, I probably should have turned on my VPN and see what happened.

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