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I tried to sign up for steam and my long complex password seemed to trigger a never ending stream of captures. Also, just today ticketmaster decided my firefox browser was a bot and blocked me. Fun times.

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You are lucky. I haven’t been able to use Ticketmaster for 2 years because all IPs from my ISP are blocked as bots. Contacted their support on Twitter and they told me the only way to use their site is to change my ISP as even the VPNs I tried are blocked. Looks like they have enough money to have the luxury to block one of the biggest ISP where I live

StubHub was just doing the same thing to me: Firefox and only Firefox was blocked entirely.

Figure it was a mistake from some automated security framework type of deal.

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