Kevin's Weblog

I’m browsing Ticketmaster and it’s really annoying me because of a combination of two (mis)features.

First, there is this bot-blocker thing, where you have to type in a word (or some word-like string) that has been obscured. The problem is that I guess the bots are getting better, so the obscuring is getting more extreme to the point where it’s getting hard for me, a human, to actually figure some of them out easily.

Second, for some reason, the “look for tickets” page lets you search for ticket prices / locations that are sold out. So, I’m doing a lot of loading slow pages and entering silly words hunting for tickets which mostly don’t exist.

Since there’s actually some chance of someone who works at TM reading this: Hey guys, fix this!