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What for? Are you trying to make the rankings of this somewhat serious? Are you aware that even with this patched, it remains trivial to build an user script that automatically replaces the flag with the country name? Probably within half an hour you could have a script that also plays the game for you! This feels a lot like how NFT owners wanted people not to be able to right-click and save their "property". This is how the internet works, you can run stuff on your machine that does absolutely anything with the data that is sent to it. Sure, you could choose to fight back. You could move from emojis to images of flags with random filters and distortions applied, or implement some click tracker that checks if the mouse/finger movement is natural, or even something more complex and effective. But the question is: should you? Should you really destroy the beautiful simplicity of this game in order to make the leader boards more accurate? And does anyone really care about the leader boards?


> Are you aware that even with this patched, it remains trivial to build an user script

Copy-pasting code feels even more trivial. Writing a script requires some effort.

It feels unfair to people who are not tech-savvy.

Sharing something like this in private is being friendly to me and letting me know that this kind of stuff possible. Honestly, I knew it wasn't bullet-proof, but I simply didn't have the time and brain capacity to envision all of the possible attack vectors.

Sharing this in public is helping others ruin the experience easier.




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