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It's clearly a tracking cookie. > for a limited persistent duration FTA: > However, the VGUI browser had no issues saving cookies with expiry dates exceeding 10+ years! So no, it doesn't even qualify.
10 years is a limited duration
Players from big countries often miss out on the sense of community that exist in smaller ones. When there are only 3-4 servers worth of people playing a game every day you quickly come to know them all, which really adds to the banter and sense of enjoyment.
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Who is gaming in a competitive game behind a VPN.. I suppose if its your only option, but I don't think this would be a great playing experience.
When I was in the dormitory (~6-8 years ago), I used VPN (OpenVPN on my private VPS) over UDP port 53 to omit the firewall which was configured to block big parts of ports.
anti web-scraping techniques
The most devious version I ever seen of this, I was baffled, astonished and completely helpless:
This website I was trying to scrap generated a new font (as in a .woff file) on every request, the font had the position of the letters randomly moved around (for example, the 'J' would be in place of the 'F' character in the .woff and so on) and the text produced by the website would be encoded to match that specific font.
So every time you loaded the website you got a completely different font with a completely different text, but for the user the text would look fine because the font mapped it to the original characters. If you tried to copy-and-paste the text from the website you would get some random garbled text.
The only way I could think of to scrap that would have been to OCR the .woff font files, but OCR could easily prevent mass-scraping due to sheer processing costs.
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The state of the art is pretty boring and you can learn about user command payloads in an afternoon. The world is much more complex now that YOLO-based aimbots exist, and I think the real answer is that anti-cheats are now defeatable, period. You can craft a private binary that has no hash registered to any major anti-cheat service on the client-side, and on the server-side you’re limited to what is allowed by game r…
> now that YOLO-based aimbots exist the what ?!?
I want to share a story in a somewhat related topic: anti web-scraping techniques The most devious version I ever seen of this, I was baffled, astonished and completely helpless: This website I was trying to scrap generated a new font (as in a .woff file) on every request, the font had the position of the letters randomly moved around (for example, the 'J' would be in place of the 'F' character in the .woff and so on…
my 2018 iPad Pro does OCR on images in Safari instantly. People only think OCR is slow because Adobe Acrobat still uses the same single-threaded OCR algo it’s had for decades now; then consider how blazing a GPU-based impl would be…
I want to share a story in a somewhat related topic: anti web-scraping techniques The most devious version I ever seen of this, I was baffled, astonished and completely helpless: This website I was trying to scrap generated a new font (as in a .woff file) on every request, the font had the position of the letters randomly moved around (for example, the 'J' would be in place of the 'F' character in the .woff and so on…
You do need to determine the "correct" character code for each glyph, but there are lots of ways to do that, on a spectrum from manual to automated. And you only need to do it once.
If I merely change the mac address in the device connected to my cable modem, I get a new IP, every time. Combined with the fact that the game is free, so you can easily make new steam accounts.
Players from big countries often miss out on the sense of community that exist in smaller ones. When there are only 3-4 servers worth of people playing a game every day you quickly come to know them all, which really adds to the banter and sense of enjoyment.
I also love games with community ran servers for the same reason
I want to share a story in a somewhat related topic: anti web-scraping techniques The most devious version I ever seen of this, I was baffled, astonished and completely helpless: This website I was trying to scrap generated a new font (as in a .woff file) on every request, the font had the position of the letters randomly moved around (for example, the 'J' would be in place of the 'F' character in the .woff and so on…
It's kind of annoying and prone to break but I'd rather have that than whatever Facebook is doing where every class name, ID & identifiable tags in the markup gets randomly generated every once in a while