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I missed that part about Firefox at work working. Then yes, it is less likely compatibility issue. Needs debugging.
If you already tried disabling all addons (and then cleaning website data + refreshing page with ctrl+shift+r), it could be some setting in browser.
If you go to about:config (type, not copy-paste) in browser, it will open many configuration flags. Flags with bold font have non-default value. If flag description sounds like it could be related, try resetting it.
As a last resort you may try Firefox Beta or Nightly :)
Thanks for the pointers!
For now, changing the user-agent as suggested in another comment did the trick. Later I will try to debug with your steps and see if I can track down the root cause.
If changing user-agent worked (all it does is changing reported browser and version used to the website when loading, it's a header in http request), then it's not a problem with the browser.
Since they are mentioning bots, this is probably what changed. Some combination of IP address, user-agent and whatever else they have access to triggered anti-bot protection. I would assume ticket-selling website this big fights bots on daily basis, you just happened to be collateral :)