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by nwh 4715 days ago
> How hard can it be? It can already log in by itself, now it just needs to know the page where you can change your password.

The main issue is; scraping is hard and breaks at the drop of a hat. Sure you could script hourly password changes if you wanted to, but as soon as the host service modifies their forms a little, the whole system breaks and you could possibly be locked out of your account.