There was an article recently about a company abusing services for like 20 years using free trials for another company over and over.
Lychee (the resin printing slicer) offers a 30 day trial. They have many users with the first name “Fuck” and the last name “Lychee”, coincidentally all with sequential “[email protected]” email accounts.
What’re they gonna do about it?
They will happily take the investor money for the inflated user count.
Give you increasingly difficult captchas (like rotate an image correctly 20 times in a row)
I use a bot, to do captchas.
Trained the captcha to beat the captcha.
Nah. They usually require an old email address or phone number.
How did you get my burner email address?
There was a story just now about this exact thing and how it got out of hand and the company noticed.
But it was different because the offender was another company
You son of a bitch
Me when Game Pass has a deal for new members to get a month for just $1