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Because the users who were less clearly fake would still degrade the experience of the rest of the users. To use an analogy, consider currency counterfeiting. T
by qvrjuec 6y ago
Because the users who were less clearly fake would still degrade the experience of the rest of the users. To use an analogy, consider currency counterfeiting. The government doesn't just look to see who is spending lots of cash without a job because it's a much harder problem than making the bills extremely difficult for the layman to forge. Same principle here - making the token extremely difficult to forge is the easier route. You don't catch 100% of the bad actors in either scenario, but why not use all of the tools available in your toolbox?
- jayd16 6y agoI'm not sure this analogy tracks very well. The government doesn't bother heightening the quality of one dollar bills, either. The government doesn't have information about every transaction, a web API does.
- theincredulousk 6y agoThese techniques are largely automated through metadata during a build process. It takes effort to setup, but not nearly as much effort as you think. The effect is asymmetrical- what takes you 1 hour to do costs a reverser 100. At least as time efficient as implementing backend detection algorithms.