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That's not a cheat, just a solution with some trade-offs.


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It's not cheating considering it's not even possible otherwise.

Yeah, but it's kind of cheating too.

So the solution is to cheat?

I don't think that what you described is cheating.

Nobody is claiming they can do that though, so it's not cheating.

There is a lot of cheating going on... This is a way to avoid some of it.

I'm curious. Why do you say this would make cheating easier?

Presumably it's trivial to cheat this.

But that's cheating!

One could argue that "cheating" is a valid solution.

I'm not sure I would call it cheating. When I think of cheating, I think of a restricted action that gives an unfair advantage over competitors, of which is incredibly difficult for competitors to duplicate. But implementing the same hack, in this case, is easy, fairly common, and it isn't stepping outside of any real boundaries so it's not like the playing field is uneven. It also works and works well to provide users (customers) with a better experience.

Yeah, that's cheating :)

That’s not cheating, that’s not a problem at all. Neither ethical nor otherwise. You happened to know a working solution, this was by chance, but you also managed to sell it, explain it and it’s a solution you developped.

Yeah or maybe you could just be honest and not cheat. That's a good option too.

So by "cheat" you mean "solve the same problem in a better way"?

Seems a bit like cheating if you do it that way, though.

That would still be cheating though?

Isn't that cheating?

Isn't that cheating?
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