Unlike a straight ban, the blinding can force bot makers and users to waste time playing a severely limited version of the game or devoting resources just to figuring out if they've been blinded in the first place. In a way, the new "blinding" punishment could be seen as a form of poetic justice for users that want to use third-party tools to see more Pokémon than the base game allows. Niantic has tried cutting off access to these third-party apps altogether in the past, but bot-makers quickly found a way around that block last August. Some bot-makers even use GPS spoofing technology to create apps that can play the game for you, virtually "warping" players to lucrative locations and snapping up Pokémon. "If the parameters for a shadowban are constantly adjusted server-side, as they can now easily be, then Niantic's machine learning engineers can train their detection (classification) algorithms in ever-improving, ever more aggressive ways, and botters will constantly be forced to re-evaluate what factors may be triggering the detection." Advertisementįurther Reading How hackers broke Pokémon Go’s anti-cheat technology in four daysNiantic's move continues a long war between the developer and hackers who have been trying to find ways to map the in-game spawn locations for Pokémon since shortly after the game's release. "This is may very well be the beginning of Niantic's machine learning approach to active bot countering," user Dronpes writes on The Silph Road subreddit.
Some suspect Niantic is making use of machine-learning algorithms to detect bots quickly while limiting false-positive punishments on legitimate accounts (the company was publicly searching for a Machine Learning Engineer last year). And while bot-makers can create free new accounts to try to get around the blinding, The Silph Road subreddit reports that many new accounts seem to be blinded quickly and automatically, signaling a change from the more manual ban waves Niantic has issued to bot makers periodically. Further Reading The tireless, automated bots that want to play Pokémon Go for youThat said, reports suggest the enforcement has been somewhat sporadic, with "some botters claiming zero accounts blinded, and others reporting complete annihilation of their account farm," according to Pokémon Go Hub.
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