Comment by jsheard
Comment by jsheard 9 hours ago
Their frontpage also advertises the ability to pass CAPTCHAs, whether by automation or more likely by delegating them to third-world CAPTCHA farms. If that's a major selling point for your automation service then your target market probably ranges from dubious (e.g. data scrapers trying to get around limits) to extremely dubious (e.g. ticket scalpers, spammers, click fraud, etc).
Just because something can be used for sketchy purposes doesn't mean that's the only purpose of it. there are thousands of situations where people are forced to interact with a shitty website 100x per day and the site won't provide an api. Imagine if your job was booking plane tickets all day. United could provide you an API key to do so via an API, but in practice they won't, only some enterprisey travel software company can get that kind of access, for a steep fee. You could build a tool which automatically puts together an itinerary based on rules and books it, through a tool like this. Perhaps a slightly contrived example but I believe things like this definitely happen.