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Emulators would be immediately identifiable. This method can only work if the fraudstee has no fraud detection mechanism at all.
by avip 7y ago
Emulators would be immediately identifiable. This method can only work if the fraudstee has no fraud detection mechanism at all.
- one2zero 7y agoHow though? With Bluestacks you can emulate a few different types of phones including Google Pixels.
- chmod775 7y agoI don't know. But I spent the better part of a day trying to prevent a game from detecting I was using an emulator. Bluestacks in different configurations was among the things I tried. Lost interest and decided the developers just don't want me as a potential customer.
- avip 7y agoFor native apps blacklist default emulator MSIN and similar attributes (and let the cat and mouse game begin). For mobile web various fingerprinting techniques are available. As a fun (and quite irrelevant) example, you can immediately tell chrome, safari, firefox and node apart just with: atob('Ψ') x
- Scoundreller 7y agoDepends what you’re emulating. Instead of emulating the OS, you could emulate app by simulating the I/O network traffic. PayTV pirates did this with smart cards: just replaced the entire thing with a chip that knew what to respond for each challenge/demand.
- avip 7y agoEverything is possible, and every measure has its counter. “Just replace the device with a chip that” is not in the same ballpark as “just use an emulator”.