We have just introduced the Spring Festival edition of the cheetah browser on Monday. With the built-in "12306 ticketing assistant" plug-in the browser, You can implement automatic ticketing, ticketing reminders, self-owned votes, and information filtering functions, and even automatically complete the car booking and order submission. This greatly facilitates users' purchases of train tickets, which were once referred to by netizens as "ticket grabbing artifacts ".
However, it was reported the day before yesterday that the 12306 ticketing version of the plug-in caused a DDOS attack on the Github server. GitHub, the world's largest social programming and code hosting website, the traffic for the 12306 ticket snatching plug-ins from China is too large to be dragged down. A few days ago, the Ministry of Railways has officially talked about Kingsoft network and demanded that the Spring Festival ticket snatching function of the cheetah browser be stopped immediately.
The railway News said that the traffic for 12306 of websites during the Spring Festival was huge, and tickets for popular lines were often sold out immediately after they were released. All types of "ticket snatching assistants" will further squeeze the network server bandwidth, bringing additional burden to websites that are already overloaded. The head of Kingsoft network said that it was currently negotiating with the Ministry of Railways, but did not disclose more details. Apart from Kingsoft's cheetah browser, Chrome, Firefox, 360 security browsers, and sogou browsers can all install various "ticket grabbing plug-ins ". This time, the Ministry of Railways personally interviewed Kingsoft, and other "ticket grabbing browsers" may all be suspended.