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We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger

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379 points mobeigi | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 18:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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santialbo ◴[17 Oct 24 07:23 UTC] No.41867231[source]▶
Banning new Steam IDs on banned IPs seems too strict to me. Some ISP use CG-NAT or rotate IPs, meaning a single bad actor could harm many innocent players.
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1. tomooot ◴[17 Oct 24 07:39 UTC] No.41867298[source]▶
They actually cover these concerns, acknowledge it was a problem with examples of siblings or students behind a shared IP, and then developed a parallel cookie based tracking system, using the "server welcome message" which is served as a web page in the in-game browser.

It's also worth noting this is a 3rd party dedicated server provider, who manages and leases community run game servers. Getting a ban here would prevent you from playing on that provider's servers, but not any of the official matchmaking ones or servers from another hosting provider.