alt Hacker NewsI 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.
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drew870mitchell • yesterday at 10:58 PM
Same, i'm doing a kitchen reno and gave up on Home Depot because of this
ksenzee • today at 3:33 AM
It sure makes debugging headers a pain. curl -sLIXGET https://… never mind, that won’t work, _fires up browser yet again_
userbinator • today at 1:39 AM
Home Depot at least has a physical presence, which you can go and directly give some much-needed feedback to.
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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".