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0 pointsAtNightWeCode1y ago0 comments

Rate limiting per user is mostly a thing of the past. You set other rate limits and various rules and then get the rate limit per user for free.

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millzlane1y ago

> Rate limiting per user is mostly a thing of the past

Someone please tell this to fidelity. After 3 wrong password attempts they lock your account.

k8svet1y ago

Fidelity are clowns. They've spent an impressive effort breaking every god damn third party integration AND using Akamai to block scraping. I can scrape Ameriprise fine, but no matter how creative I get Fidelity gives back a weird error on login.

(This is on top of them not sending any actionable email when changing my contributions to 0 in between pay periods)

I'm rolling my 401k out as often and fast as possible. I hate American banks so much.

mananaysiempre1y ago

> us[e] Akamai to block scraping

Would https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate help? Haven’t tried with Akamai, but did help with another widely used CDN that shall remain unnamed (but has successfully infused me with burning hate for their products after a couple of years’ worth of using an always-on VPN to bypass Internet censorship and/or a slightly unusual browser).

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ryandrake1y ago

> Fidelity are clowns. They've spent an impressive effort breaking every god damn third party integration AND using Akamai to block scraping.

What’s funny/sad is they probably pat themselves on their back thinking their security is so advanced and awesome. Financial services web integrations are all total clown shows.

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dpkirchner1y ago

And they convert usernames to sets of digits so they can be entered more easily on phones. Naturally this results in a lot of collisions.

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millzlane1y ago

> Rate limiting per user is mostly a thing of the past

Someone please tell this to fidelity. After 3 wrong password attempts they lock your account.

k8svet1y ago

(This is on top of them not sending any actionable email when changing my contributions to 0 in between pay periods)

I'm rolling my 401k out as often and fast as possible. I hate American banks so much.

mananaysiempre1y ago

> us[e] Akamai to block scraping

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ryandrake1y ago

> Fidelity are clowns. They've spent an impressive effort breaking every god damn third party integration AND using Akamai to block scraping.

What’s funny/sad is they probably pat themselves on their back thinking their security is so advanced and awesome. Financial services web integrations are all total clown shows.

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dpkirchner1y ago

And they convert usernames to sets of digits so they can be entered more easily on phones. Naturally this results in a lot of collisions.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse