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Who will game the reading meter? Eight kinds of reader, nine ways to cheat, and the risks that will actually happen: what changed in v1.1.0
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22 unchanged paragraphs, under In short, The question one level down, Eight kinds of reader…
| # | What a reader can do | Who can | What it costs the site | What it costs the reader | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | Edit their balance in developer tools | Steps 1 to 3, and 4 with a recipe | Nothing it would have had | Nothing | | 2 | Open a private window or another browser and start again at £5.00 | Everyone, often by accident | Nothing | Their history and picks | | 3 | Open the page a payment returns to with any reference, and get £5 of credit, once per reference | Steps 1 to 4 | Nothing: no money moves, and the credit is only on their screen | Nothing | | 4 | Replay the same return URL | Anyone | Blocked once per reference; a new reference is trivial, so see 3 | None | | 5 | Clear site data to wipe a negative balance | Steps 1 to 3 | Nothing; there was never a debt | Their history | | 6 | Read as an agent, through the markdown twin or the wire | Agents | Unmetered by design | None | | 7 | Read someone else's history and personas on a shared computer | Anyone with the computer | None | Privacy | | 8 | A script injected into the site reads the history | Needs a hole in the site first | Reputation | Privacy | | 9 | Card testing, fraud or chargebacks on the Stripe link | Ordinary payment fraud | Fees and disputes | None |
15 unchanged paragraphs, under The risks that will actually happen, Aim at the readers who will pay, What would change the answer