[Greasemonkey] Checking for Greasemonkey

Bill Donnelly donnelly at snowcrest.net
Wed Apr 19 21:38:34 EDT 2006


"The only way to win the game.... is to use Greasemonkey."

There are two things he can do:

1) The most powerful and most effective is to only allow people to play 
if Javascript is turned off (disabled) in the browser.

2) Any scripting could be VBScripting only, but that still may not 
(probably won't) "fix" the problem.


Brendan J wrote:
> I have a feeling this guy is experiencing people using GM on his webgame:
> http://www2.thecrims.com/
> But I think any developer worth any salt can get around any "detection
> mechanism" you design.  If you want to avoid people automatically playing
> the game, just put more bot-captchas in there.  And in the case of people
> using GM to design a better interface, well frankly that would be flattering
> to me.  :)
>
> Brendan
>   


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