Comment by papercruncher
15 hours ago
I have been unable to give my money to Home Depot, REI and a growing list of online retailers because they use Akamai EdgeSuite, which just assumes I am a bot and 403s on protected API calls. This happens consistently on any IP and any browser on my Linux desktop/laptop.
There are not enough words to describe how much I hate Akamai EdgeSuite. So many random validation loops and 403s across different physical computers, different operating systems, different connections and even countries. A couple of services I need use it and it's 30% I'll make it past their stupid "protection".
Same, i'm doing a kitchen reno and gave up on Home Depot because of this
It sure makes debugging headers a pain. curl -sLIXGET https://… never mind, that won’t work, _fires up browser yet again_
Home Depot at least has a physical presence, which you can go and directly give some much-needed feedback to.
It has a zero percent chance of reaching anyone who can do anything about it.
You could try handwriting and posting a letter to their CEO. I think that sometimes works. Probably not very often but there are more than zero CEOs who read those letters.
The point is to spread the word.
Maybe they'll figure it out when their revenue drops next quorter or the ones after that?
I was thinking in the same terms: you put up a QR capcha, you don't get my traffic and money. Just the amount of extra work needed, let alone the Google tracking turns me off. As if traffic lights, crosswalks and bridges weren't enough of a hassle.
REI is allegedly a co-op, maybe there's a committee or something it could be presented to?
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