In the mid-2010s Crawlera was being used to send all requests through a new IP, people were buying gift cards to avoid a Cybersource check, and Shopify's api was being abused. Just to buy sneakers.
Since then it has gone to another level and sneakers are just a category within the greater bot world. The "cook groups" that came with school shutdowns and the rise of Discord/Telegram are often run by talented young devs who started out learning lua for Roblox and then moved on to C++/Rust/Go.
It's hard enough to keep up and I do not envy OP. Having to deal with Yahoo's incompetence is the icing on the cake.
Since then it has gone to another level and sneakers are just a category within the greater bot world. The "cook groups" that came with school shutdowns and the rise of Discord/Telegram are often run by talented young devs who started out learning lua for Roblox and then moved on to C++/Rust/Go.
It's hard enough to keep up and I do not envy OP. Having to deal with Yahoo's incompetence is the icing on the cake.