Some websites I have visited during the early 2010s such as some flash game websites allowed users to vote as guests.
To keep votes accountable, some sites solely relied on browser cookies, meaning that if I deactivated cookies in the browser, and ran an auto clicker software, I could upvote some resources as often as I wished.
I guess no web developer is this foolish in 2020, but in the early 2010s, some web developers actually were.
I remember it having worked once on LEGO.com video resources. I added >5000 likes to some video I found there just for testing.
I guess the LEGO.com site developers did not expect children to figure that out, and were surprised when one video suddenly got >5000 likes in one day.
Some websites I have visited during the early 2010s such as some flash game websites allowed users to vote as guests.
To keep votes accountable, some sites **solely relied on browser cookies**, meaning that if I deactivated cookies in the browser, and ran an auto clicker software, I could upvote some resources as often as I wished.
I guess no web developer is this foolish in 2020, but in the early 2010s, some web developers actually were.
I remember it having worked once on LEGO.com video resources. I added >5000 likes to some video I found there just for testing.
I guess the LEGO.com site developers did not expect children to figure that out, and were surprised when one video suddenly got >5000 likes in one day.
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