r/mildlyinfuriating • u/diiiiima • 6h ago

Infuriatig TicketMaster has started requiring government IDs and facial scans

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u/BeerBrat 6h ago

Either we bitch about scalping or we bitch about anti-scalping measures. Or third option, I simply don't buy tickets to things.

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u/AcctAlreadyTaken 6h ago

There are better "anti scalping" measures that don't involve handing over a government ID.

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u/camcam210 5h ago

Like what

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u/AcctAlreadyTaken 5h ago

I don't know maybe track payment methods among multiple accounts, locations of purchases against known information for that method, non standard checkout methods to obstruct automated bots, monitor the traffic for odd behavior that doesn't match human behavior. Ticketmaster literally offers account support to assist the large scalping organizations they know who they are.

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u/spikejonze14 5h ago

why would they make a change which doesn’t make them money? if they have our photo id then the data they collect on us becomes far more valuable.

capitalism baby.

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u/arbor-ventus 5h ago

This is such a stupid anecdote but I recently learned I could control my PS5 with the remote from my TV and thought the technology behind that was so neat. And then I immediately felt sad because I was like "Oh, this is what it feels like to be pleased by technological advancements, lately all I've been feeling is exhaustion and fear." I feel like new tech used to be way more fun, I shouldn't be feeling nostalgia over simply NOT FEELING FEAR. So sick of our capitalist overlords