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wildginger, do games w CSGO Massive Bot Lobby Problem - Why Does Valve Not Care?

What is the botters goal here?

smeg,

Does CSGO still give you cosmetic items that you can sell for real money? If so then I guess that’s the goal.

woelkchen, do games w CSGO Massive Bot Lobby Problem - Why Does Valve Not Care?
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

CSGO? No, Valve does not care for a game that was repalced with CS2.

unexposedhazard, do games w Fellow Apex Legends players- how we feeling about the newest season so far?

They broke linux gameplay again. Thats all i think about it.

DestinyGrey,

Yeah. It’s sad to say but I’ve kind of given up on playing the game on Linux at this point. “Fortunately”, I have to use Windows for WFH so it’s not a huge deal if I want to get some Apex in.

not_that_guy05, do games w Fellow Apex Legends players- how we feeling about the newest season so far?

Wait, we respawn now with a weapon and armor? Interesting. Is it the same weapon you were using before dying or random one?

With this new legend, lifeline just keeps getting left behind. Poor lifeline.

DestinyGrey,

It’s the same weapon, and some armor. It’s actually lead to quite a bit of amusing cheese, where you can duplicate evos using this one simple trick!

Lifeline’s still pretty good if you play aggressively with a team though- she’s great for kind of immediately picking everyone back up for any incoming third parties. I suspect she’ll see more usage again if the new legend isn’t too overpowering a support.

not_that_guy05,

Welp I see this being abused real quick and everybody having purps or red armor by the middle of the season.

DestinyGrey,

During HisWattson’s 14 hour stream on the first day of competitive, he and his team were duplicating armors a lot at the start. By beating a team, killing the dogs and spiders nearby, and then crafting the evo once or twice, they could guarantee a red evo that would then get duped.

You dive off the map, teammate grabs that evo and then dives off map, then both of you get respawned with red evos and even duplicate items (sans attachments, of course).

They actually got dove by a pred team from last season doing this, but since everyone on the team had red evos, HisWattson’s squad beat them. It was actually pretty funny, if a little bonkers.

And since this season incentivizes placing over kills by a significant margin, this isn’t a braindead strategy, though it requires your teammates cooperating and your squad’s speediness in getting that higher level EVO.

pycorax,

I haven’t had a chance to play it yet but I really like the sound of still having your weapon (even if it is naked) and armour even when you’re down. Feels like it would make respawning in the final rings a lot more viable.

CaptainHowdy, do piracy w Piracy Wiki + Megathread

Is there a tracker that gets most switch games? I used to use nsw2u, but lately most games area direct DL and not torrent. IPThads some of the games, but many of the ones I’m looking for are missing.

ultratiem, do piracy w Why WARP is OK for torrenting
@ultratiem@lemmy.ca avatar

WARP is a great. The only issue when it comes to torrenting is you can’t drill open any ports. Makes seeding super hard near impossible.

Other than that, yeah it will protect all traffic and is insanely fast for a free service (I snapped 700Mbps and my line is 1Gbps).

PixeIOrange, do piracy w Can they even track pirated installs ?

All points made in that post are LMAO.

They estimate the installs. Or least thats what remains between they wont track installs and they have a proprietary data model to calculate them.

Enshittification takes its course.

QuarterlySushi,
@QuarterlySushi@kbin.social avatar

rofl seriously? Not only will they charge for the installs, but they won’t even use the actual number of installs - they’ll guess? This is the most hilariously stupid business model I’ve ever heard of

dingleberry,

All this makes a lot more sense with the lens of mobile gaming. Effort required is little, and margins are huge. If players don’t partake in microtransactions, you just bombard them with ads.

This is the future of Unity. They are counting on devs not even bothering with the whole monetization model and instead expect them to turn on IronSource ads.

elxeno, do piracy w Can they even track pirated installs ?

So those who aren’t victims of piracy will be “fairly hurt”?

TheMadnessKing, do piracy w Why WARP is OK for torrenting

Afaik, there was a script that gives you free data for Warp+ too.

echodot, (edited ) do piracy w Can they even track pirated installs ?

Oh it’s our fault for being confused is it, ok.

What a jackass.

Oh and look at that they are 100% going to increase the price on you down the line.

princessnorah, do piracy w Why WARP is OK for torrenting
@princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

What’s the difference between using WARP and just setting 1.1.1.1 as your DNS on the router?

Bakery7328, (edited )

Setting 1.1.1.1 as the DNS server on a router will simply use the Cloudflare DNS server instead of your ISP DNS server. It improves speed and makes it harder to the ISP to track your activity, or block sites for you. But still they still see to which IP addreses you are connecting to. And anybody with your IP can see what files you are torrenting (this can be checked at iknowwhatyoudownload.com)

WARP will route all your traffic through the Cloudflare servers (like any other VPN). So your IP is hidden from the public when torrenting, and from the sites you visit. And your ISP doesn’t know what sites you are visiting

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I just checked the page for my own ip, my past seedbox IP and my current seedbox IP

My current (dynamic) ISP IP: No downloads. Makes sense, as I do not have torrenting.
My historic seedbox IP: No downloads. Strange but the website claims it tracks the DHT protocol and I am pretty sure I rarely used DHT for my torrents back then
My current seedbox IP: Multiple downloads from today about me supposedly downloading XXX stuff amd various kinds of games and movies.

The site doesn’t know all shit or at least not maps it to the correct IP. I am not interested in torrenting porn anyway and if, I would probably not download it from DHT and more likely be around private trackers
I don’t torrent games ever. The only pieces of software I did are photoshop and illustrator and switch games.
Is my seedbox hacked? Not impossible. I found an open seedbox FTP connection on shodan and have the power to connect to the FTP share. Is kind of interesting to see what others download.

Bakery7328, (edited )

Your seedbox probably shares the same IP address with other people. So those xxx downloads are from them.

the DHT is just a decentralised torrent index that lists all torrents in public trackers, plus the ones seeded by people with DHT enabled in their client, iirc

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I believe (my) seedbox IP is unique. Else private trackers would certainly throw a fit because of shared accounts due to IPs.

I will ask my hoster. Seems interesting.

SaltySalamander, (edited )
@SaltySalamander@kbin.social avatar

You are incorrect. If you pay for a seedbox, it is almost guaranteed to be a shared box. Unless your seedbox costs you over $100/mo, you don't have exclusive control over it or the IP it uses.

Private trackers know how seedbox companies operate, therefore don't really give a shit that you're sharing an IP to seed.

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Yeah nvmd. I asked my hoster today.
It’s shared.

Overmind, do piracy w Why WARP is OK for torrenting

I’ve been using warp since a couple of years. I honestly didn’t care about my IP being leaked to the torrent sites because I no longer try to visit any honeypot. The only thing I wanted was to keep my ISP away from my actions and warp has always done that seamlessly.

I did a test with my pihole where pihole was unable to block any adverts when I was connected to warp which made me realise that it’s not just a custom dns solution but a tunnel to the website where no one else can snoop on your traffic.

nooneescapesthelaw, do piracy w Can they even track pirated installs ?

If they could tell an install is pirated then they would lock it down

They either count all installs as legitimate or pirated copies are not picked up by their telemetry

lauha,

Why would you ever let a pirated copy online anyway

seaturtle,

On the contrary, I think the incentive would be for Unity to let the pirated install keep existing because that would mean more money they can extort from developers/publishers.

Thorned_Rose, do piracy w Can they even track pirated installs ?
@Thorned_Rose@kbin.social avatar

RED FLAGS!! red flaaags. RED FLAAAGS, get your red flags heeeeere folks 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Kata1yst,
@Kata1yst@kbin.social avatar

Do you have a special going if I need more than one?

Thorned_Rose,
@Thorned_Rose@kbin.social avatar

Red flags are always free. Upfront anyway. You pay for them at an unexpected time in unpleasant ways later. So feel free to have as many as Unity is providing. 😊

ArcaneSlime,

This needs to be adapted into a three part movie (think Creepshow) where a seemingly innocuous vendor selling flags rather than balloons is the “host” and the people who buy red ones get them free…but “You pay for them at an unexpected time in unpleasant ways later.” And all the parts are just FULL of red flags the characters don’t see but the audience does (as per usual in most horror films).

redditReallySucks, do piracy w Why WARP is OK for torrenting
@redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

To me it is not 100% clear if your IP is always hidden

This community post talks about mixed results although it says that issue was fixed

A quick Google search and many sites say that warp does not hide your IP altough some say that they added that feature

However this post and this post from the cloudflare team says it does hide your ip.

Bakery7328, (edited )

I believe the feature was included at the end of 2022. I know it works right now because I tested with the ip-leak checkers

redditReallySucks,
@redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Cloudflares blog posts say so so I assume this is true but I would still recommend everyone to verify this for themselves before receiving letters from law firms.

Pulp, (edited )

When you visit a site that using Cloudflare, the site receives your IP address in a header. Sites not using Cloudflare do not. When torrenting, it’s possible that one of the trackers uses Cloudflare and gets your IP in that header, but it’s not a concern as other peers only receive the VPN IP.

Bakery7328, (edited )

This was true in the past.

But right now, according to this, they deny it specically: “WARP replaces your original IP address with a Cloudflare IP […]. This happens regardless of whether the site is on the Cloudflare network or not.

I don’t know of a checker to individually verify this quickly, but I assume they say the truth.

Anyway, I think you are right in that it wouldn’t be a concern for torrenting, if it was true for the present.

Edit: I found a tool to verify this now: this http header checker is using Cloudflare according to the urlvoid scan. And I can’t see my real IP in the X-Forwarded-For and CF-Connecting-IP HTTP headers

mark7869,
@mark7869@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Websites and third party services often infer geolocation from your IP address, and now, 1.1.1.1 + WARP replaces your original IP address with one that consistently and accurately represents your approximate location.

no thanks I don’t want to reveal my approximate location

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