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Old Apr 19, 2014, 11:43 pm
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Life Miles now requiring random codes just to see award avails??
Seriously? What a joke. Customer service is already as pleasant as having a root canal. Now we have to enter a stupid random code just to see award avails? On every effing search. Want to check Next Week? Of course, you need a new code. Half of them aren't even fully visible. Oy.

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Old Apr 20, 2014, 12:34 am
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this triggers after a certain amount of searches in a 24 hour period and doesn't go away until the next day...

best way to get around it is to have another account handy (family,...) and use that.
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Old Apr 20, 2014, 3:29 am
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It's been discussed here repeatedly and only occurs after a fairly large amount of searching
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Old Apr 21, 2014, 10:26 am
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Remove spam control?
I do alot of searches on lifemiles and I am so annoyed by that spamfilter when I click on next week.
"Please enter the characters shown below. The character validation is case sensitive."

Is there any way to get it removed?
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Old Apr 21, 2014, 11:32 am
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Yes, but "backend"-work needed
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Old Apr 21, 2014, 2:35 pm
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Why do companies do this?
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Old Apr 21, 2014, 2:41 pm
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Why do companies do this?
To protect their websites against search robots, for example
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Old Apr 21, 2014, 2:53 pm
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Originally Posted by hannes08
To protect their websites against search robots, for example
So what? And what airline FF program other than LifeMiles does this???
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Old Apr 21, 2014, 4:38 pm
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Originally Posted by SFO777
So what? And what airline FF program other than LifeMiles does this???
What does it matter? It's their choice.
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Old Apr 21, 2014, 6:39 pm
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Originally Posted by SFO777
So what? And what airline FF program other than LifeMiles does this???
ANA
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Old Apr 22, 2014, 7:51 am
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I've had this happen when I did maybe 20 or so queries in one session...

I don't mind the Captcha to be honest, but on every submission after hitting their limit is quite ridiculous. Why not have it pop up after every 5 or 10 searches after the fact.

Guess they are still learning about variables in their programming classes.

Any skilled programmer can get around this though.
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Old Apr 22, 2014, 8:01 am
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The solution to continue searching is easy: use another LM account for the next 12 hours
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Old Apr 22, 2014, 9:03 pm
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Originally Posted by LH630
I do alot of searches on lifemiles and I am so annoyed by that spamfilter when I click on next week.
"Please enter the characters shown below. The character validation is case sensitive."

Is there any way to get it removed?
Use another account.
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Old Apr 24, 2014, 1:02 am
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... or 10.
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