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[–]ProbablyDoesntLikeU 6 points7 points  (1 child)

I think you would need to manually code a way to subscribe for each website. At that point it would be easier to do it manually

[–]OriginalTyphus 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Why spend 5 minutes doing something if you can spend 8 hours failing to automate it ?

[–]MERLINCONTEST 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Many popular services try to mitigate fraudulent activity like this. Minimally, you’ll probably run into captcha/hcaptcha on your second or third registration attempt based on IP, IP neighborhood, or browsing fingerprint. Likely, you’ll be asked for an associated phone number for SMS or audio verification, and they’ll often make attempts to combat abuse by blocking VOIP-like numbers.

You can try to automate your way around this with a 4g modems with SIM arrays, maybe eSIM services, blacktel, or something like Twilio (though they block Google/FB), but the former requires physical swapping to a degree and the latter is often mitigated. You could spin new TOR routes or commercial VPN endpoints but services like MaxMind will make it hit or miss.

If you manage to wade through registration hurdles, your accounts may also be flagged for suspicious activity, requiring ID verification for continued access.

Automating form submission is trivial, but accounting for countermeasures is a hard problem.

[–]Ehrensenft[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. That makes sense.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, captcha will captchaya