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Oct 12, 2023 | 11:11 am

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Originally Posted by Global321

I could be wrong, but I don't believe login is required or used. It would be too easy for the airline to limit the number of queries. And the scrapes would be a challenge.

If logged in, I actually agree with the airline. We agree to certain terms when we create an account. They have every right to enforce their rules on accounts.

Some of the scraping tools have/had users provide their credentials -- and then they ran the queries from user owned devices to avoid detection. It's suspected (see above) that EF used UA to run queries. UA definitely requires some sort of login to get award result data. At least I need to log into my

wn account to see any of it.

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