How Dare You Even Wish To Have Nice Things!
The memory situation is now even worse, thanks to unscrupulous and avarice driven individuals who are now unleashing bot armies to scoop up any RAM or flash storage that hits a somewhat reasonable price. In the exact same way that tickets to your favourite bands or teams disappear moments after they are made available for sale, we now have bots monitoring the price of memory and scooping it up wholesale.
The “bots have been hitting DRAM product pages on e-commerce sites at a rate almost 6x more often than legitimate use” and to make matters worse these wastes of oxygen and carbon are leveraging AI tools to get around any attempts the sites make to block this rapacious harvesting of RAM. This will of course drive up prices, not just because of the ever diminishing supply but also because these perfect examples of how not to behave in society are reselling the RAM their bots scooped up at inflated prices.
As usual, the law claims to be helpless against this sort of thing and that nothing can be done but live with it.
Web scraping bots are increasing the pressure on the tech supply chain by scouring sites for DRAM, so their minders can snap up increasingly scarce inventory and resell it for a quick profit.
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