Paul IrishWatching the GeoGuessr World Championship. 📍Surprisingly, this totally works as an esport. Kinda thrilling.
Luke Shiru (he/him)
@paul_irish It's kinka sad the actual game is so easy to cheat through Google Maps API (you can listen for map changes and get where that took you and then use the API itself to tell you where that is)
@luke Do they employ any anti-devtools measures? It's fun to play if you have confidence that no one is cheating..
But also.. what web based games aren't vulnerable to that kinda thing?
@paul_irish > Do they employ any anti-devtools measures?
Nope, but also every app out there blocking dev-tools is just asking to be hacked even harder.
> what web-based games aren't vulnerable to that kinda thing?
Oh yup, 100% ... the main difference here is that because they are using a publicly available and well-known API such as Google Maps, is kinda easier than with other web-based games, which includes exposed globals that games with custom implementations generally don't have.
@paul_irish I wrote a bookmarklet a long time ago, and it still works, tho I don't actually play the game, I just wrote it as a joke when a streamer friend of mine was trying the game and getting frustrated by it. Sorta like: "You could just run this script and always win", and he being a decent competitive gamer was like: "Nah, that makes it less fun" 