New study says that 40% of concert ticket traffic comes from bots
Goddam bots. Those software programs that push aside us poor meatbags when it comes to buying tickets continue to screw with the marketplace,
I quote:
“Bots are leveraged by brokers, scalpers, hospitality agencies, and other criminals to execute a number of attacks, including denial of inventory, spinning
Here are a couple of additional notes. Again, I quote:
- 78 percent of bots on ticketing websites are classified as sophisticated or moderately sophisticated, with more human-like characteristics that often evade detecition
- 85 percent of the bad bots launched against ticketing companies originated in North America
- 42.4 percent of bad bots report Chrome as their user agent
Goddam bots. Am I right?