Its operation, the software engineering expert at the Open University of Catalonia, Jordi Abot, explains on his blog, is based on searching for the data fields for the purchase on a page and filling them in based on the instructions given by the person in charge.
“They have no knowledge of what they do,” Abot details. “If a page changes the name of the ‘buy’ button to ‘keep it’, the vast majority of bots would stop working. You have to adapt the bot to each page and to each evolution of that page”.
The implementation of these systems has not only become a problem for the music industry, but has also had an impact on other sectors such as gaming, where they are used to hoard computer components or even state-of-the-art consoles so that they do not reach consumers. and in the end they have to pay more.
Another market that has been affected by bots is that of collectible sneakers. Antonio Martínez, agency partner manager of Shopify Mexico, said that the people behind these systems are not improvised, since they know the markets and know which products will have a higher resale price in the future.
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