We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger

> Wonderful, we have found a way to silently persist a cookie for each player as they join the server.

This violates GDPR, no?

Edit: It sounds like this took place before GDPR was being enforced.

GDPR isn't a blanket ban on cookies. You don't require a cookie notice for strictly necessary cookies, which you have a "grounds of legitimate interest" for: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...

Fraud prevention is listed as an example of a "legitimate interest."

So no, by my layman's interpretation, they would not have been bound by GDPR to notify the user of cookies or other fingerprinting used solely for anti-cheat. They'd run into trouble if they use that same ID for marketing/advertising without consent, though.

GDPR is toothless eurotrash.

I saw a consent form that had 72 optional, 21 “legitimate interest” cookies.

GFB