itsmetristan wrote:Christen57 wrote:Genexwrecker wrote:Prevents bots from grabbing replays after the duel is over. Aka ygoscope
Since when did bots grabbing replays become an issue?
Ygoscope
I always thought Ygoscope was
supported by duelingbook which is how Ygoscope was able to collect data on the current meta decks in the first place. Either way, how did it become an issue that Ygoscope was providing data on the current meta using data from duelingbook? Many of us players use Ygoscope to figure out what the current best decks are so we know which cards to main and side deck and whatnot when going into ranked on duelingbook.
Also, there seem to be other types of bots capable of scraping entire decklists from repalys, which is a massive problem.
I'm not a web programmer, so I don't know how well the captcha system works at preventing these, but these are the issues that arise from bots grabbing replays.
Anything a bot can scrape, a human can scrape as well. Plus, replays only show you the cards people played in the duel(s) in question. It doesn't show any cards that remained in a player's deck or extra deck for the entire duel without ever coming out, so most of a player's cards will still be hidden, meaning no bot would be able to access those hidden cards anyways.
Seriously, unless these bots are actually harming or damaging duelingbook in any way, or are causing duelingbook to lag/crash like
DDOS attacks or something, this is a non-issue and you should let the bots do their job so us players can have the information we need on the meta decks and thus know which cards to main deck and side deck. I remember in the previous format when we were still under the February 7 2022 banlist, I was able to use Ygoscope to figure out that Floowandereeze, Branded, Eldlich, Prank-Kids, Swordsoul, and so on, were the most played decks in ranked at the moment, and thanks to this valuable information I was able to figure out how I should build my deck going up against these meta decks I was gonna run into a lot.