I 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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userbinator 21 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Home Depot at least has a physical presence, which you can go and directly give some much-needed feedback to.

	▲	tardedmeme 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It has a zero percent chance of reaching anyone who can do anything about it. You could try handwriting and posting a letter to their CEO. I think that sometimes works. Probably not very often but there are more than zero CEOs who read those letters.

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spystath 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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".

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drew870mitchell 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Same, i'm doing a kitchen reno and gave up on Home Depot because of this