Comment on New study finds bots and fraud farms responsible for 73% of web traffic

• Decoy321@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They go, “hey bot, would you please clip me some Safeway coupons?”

  Then the bot goes and gets their little bot scissors and their bot newspaper, then clips up some coupons and hands them to OP.

  It’s a pretty endearing sight.

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  • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Father, what is my purpose?”

    “You clip coupons.”

    “… Oh my god…”

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Then the bot goes and gets their little bot scissors

    But digitally.

    and their bot newspaper,

    But digitally.

    then clips up some coupons

    But digitally.

    and hands them to OP.

    But digitally.

    They said we’d all be living in a VR world by now back in the 90s!

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I had some good times with your mom last night. But digitally.

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• JDubbleu@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TamperMonkey (I’ve been told to use ViolentMonkey instead as TamperMonkey isn’t open source) and the script here. Then you can run a script to periodically log into your account in a headless browser and click the button. Unfortunately there’s no coupon API so this is the best solution I could think of.

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  • Riccosuave@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thank you for giving the first real answer. As funny as the others were, I was in fact looking for a legitimate understanding of how to do this 🙃

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