Oh, I don't know how many of the bots were actually using the API, versus just userscripts running in TamperMonkey/ViolentMonkey. The ones I saw were userscript

Oh, I don't know how many of the bots were actually using the API, versus just userscripts running in TamperMonkey/ViolentMonkey. The ones I saw were userscripts, so they were browser based. They did try _some_ prevention, there was a guy running 20 accounts who had his timers escalate up to like 18000 minutes, and also if you placed too many black pixels in sequence you'd get errors for a while before you could place again. But it definitely didn't kick in until way too late.