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[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They changed it to try to detect the same PC, probably by assigning a token.

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Easily manipulated, though, so it's still a shit idea

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

It is. I wonder how it is gonna detect different Steam Proton prefixes, because if they are all different PCs a bad actor can simply keep recreating the prefix. On powerful enough CPUs you can create a prefix in seconds.