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We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger

Learn how IdentityLogger used fingerprinting to combat ban evasion, protecting our CSGO community from relentless cheaters.

To mitigate this, we could maintain a list of popular VPNs and their associated IP addresses but this is extremely tedious and requires constant maintenance which is something our admin team discussed and wasn't too fond of doing. By early 2017, the ban evasion problem on our servers had worsened significantly, taking a serious toll on the admins who were performing constant manual demo reviews which were both time-consuming and, let's be honest, boring. I am happy to report that the solution worked as expected from deployment date until October 2017 when Valve removed the VGUI browser entirely as part of their efforts to secure the game.

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