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I wrote about this behaviour last week. So called “sniper bots” booking tennis courts within seconds of becoming available. The first example in the article is Clissold Park close to me. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

giftarticle.ft.comLondon’s tennis players cry fault as bots snap up court bookings‘Sniper bots’ that trawl reservation websites are distorting the fight for slots on the capital’s 1,400 public courts

Rich Holman

@richholman.com

Given these agents / bots don't often announce themselves (except for something like Chrome 153 headless on Linux) it's not easy to even just block them. I idea I had was to put early bookings into a draw + deposit: dgw.ltd/wp-content/t...

dgw.ltdAsk for a depositTwo rules for an invented bakery: a small deposit, and names out of a hat in place of a race when slots are scarce.

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