I hope they asked permissions for storing those cookies. Otherwise they're violating various EU laws.
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This community is Australian & New Zealand based, we had 0 European players or visitors. And as @unsnap_biceps this predated GDPR compliance.
You are right though that you wouldn't be able to do this in Europe today because asking for fingerprinting consent defeats the purpose because the hacker would likely quickly figure out what is happing and circumvent it.