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Kurtz79 on April 13, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The button: social experiment driving Reddit crazy

For someone with only limited HTTP/Javascript knowledge:

"The more dedicated cheaters will hit the button API outside of the browser, which is pretty hard to stop"

How this would be accomplished, I guess from the command line ?

EDIT: found what Monkeypatch means.

tokenizerrr on April 13, 2015 [–]

The button presses are communicated over a websocket. You could make your own websocket client and communicate however you want to, such as listening to time updates and sending a click when it reaches a certain treshold.

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