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Very nice! Games such as Runescape were built into the browser stored data on users computers to track botting. So many of the first gold farming companies developed technologies like this to implement into Botting clients (which were very sophisticated web browsers).

There was a very interesting tech scene that many don't know about around MMO cheating, especially Runescape.



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