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Airline says it's a 'robot' fee for automated bookings made on the site but that errors mean it sometimes gets applied to human customers.


Actually seems plausible: detecting a bot through differences in interaction, and the and blocker causing a false positive.

Though a bad idea: I can think of no way an ad blocker could trip it that would not mean it could sometimes trip without one due to transient network errors, so it isn't likely to be terribly good at its main job of being a bot detector.




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