It's kinda fair, not completely (especially in a roommate situation or where multiple families share a house). But like all things there is no perfect solution, they'll all have their pros and cons.

I would like to point out that none of these solutions stop bots from getting cards, only attempt to minimize the damage they can do. If anything that's the most important part of this conversation to remember: you can't stop bots.

I also think we're both in agreement that nvidia (and to an extent: digital river) should and could be doing more but are choosing not to which sucks.

For your last questions about the API:

When people talk about that 363 numbers they're talking about this link (which you can access using your browser like normal): https://in-and-ru-store-api.uk-e1.cloudhub.io/DR/get-inventory/en_US/5438481700?format=json&expand=availablequantity

Which is a publicly accessible API that displays the amount of gpus nvidia has in stock (assumedly). After the launch event that number started crawling up which led people to conclude that nvidia was cancelling orders of scalpers. (idk whether or not to believe that)

Btw: That number is for the US specifically, different regions have different product ids and different stock numbers. France for instance shows 3, the Netherlands 1.

So if that numbers suddenly goes up that could indicate nvidia is about to release a new batch to the public.

This one shows general information about the 3080: https://in-and-ru-store-api.uk-e1.cloudhub.io/DR/products/en_US/USD/5438481700

Note the "status": "PRODUCT_INVENTORY_OUT_OF_STOCK"As long as that's there you can't order it.

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It's not entirely the same as limiting the speed a webpage can be accessed, it's on a lower level than that (which is also another reason why bots have an advantage btw).

In short when you load a webpage quite a few things happen