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Originally Posted by bradical
The less sophisticated bots, typically the ones you see being resold, have a series of "events" programmed into them. So it looks for a certain URL of a product and tries and crawl the page HTML tree looking for the elements on the page to add to cart, check out, etc.
When the page layout changes, then the bot can't find the elements to try and mimic and complete the artificial order. The bot just runs on an infinite loop and tries over and over and over again to complete the programmed series of events.
So, unless the bot owner knows how to reprogram their bot, these resold bots are being rendered useless.
Now, there are plenty of other smart people out there who have programmed much more sophisticated bots to work around the various changes that Target makes.
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If this is targets attempt at bot protection it’s lulz. Devs are so far ahead of this it’s laughable. Thanks for info tho, interesting convo. Paging charm I’m 3..2..1..