Introducing the Ban API and Alt Account Detection

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#228

They would be considered normal accounts do not worry.

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#229

Not a lucky guess, the backend probably uses the account creation date and the browser cookies to decide whether or not that account is an alt.

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#230

Can’t seem to unban myself using UnbanAsync hahaha, cool tho.

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#231

Huge risk of exploitation, a developer might mass-ban a certain group of people from playing the game for unfair reasons, and those players might want to signify that the game and it’s creator are bad through the voting system.

Many other cases may occur and this prevention may lead to unfair and bad cases.
Besides, let them. If a game is good, positive votes will always outdo the negative ones anyway, and with the previous Kick system it wasn’t a major problem either.

#232

Are you trying to do it through the “Play”?

#234

I did it via a script, command bar in studio, and the console all resulted in me still being banned lmao

I’m able to join studio but not live lol

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#235

Did you try starting a server through the “Run” option instead and running the UnbanAsync() through that?

#236

Try putting a script in ServerScriptService that unbans you with your user id, and then join the game on the client with another account (must be freshly made through incognito or something else) so that the server script can run.

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#237

Yea, its in a server script :joy:

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#238

I’m about to make a great tutorial out of this one! Thank you, Roblox! :slight_smile:

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#239

lol it still says “service not live” in autocompletion and yet it works so like

i take this as a win
obraz

#240

Yea, that worked thank you, that’s clearly not intended :sweat_smile:.

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#241

This is both a W, and an L update.

W:
Because alts are a HUGE problem for many games on the front page, for example games that are full with exploiters like Arsenal.
L:
Because I like trolling, and knowing the dumb cafe games they’re probably going to implement this and ban people using banapi.

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#242

thank you roblox, but is this api available right now?

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#243

I really do like what this is doing but I STRONGLY believe roblox needs to either give us a way to sandbox code via a script instance or by code, or give us a way to disable the api entirely. This inadvertently hinders the ability for some types of games to exist and can Greatly hurt a lot of smaller games.

This should not have been released without one or the other.

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#244

Yep just tested alt account detection used account switcher, same ip. and same device and no detection on the alt.

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#245

How did you get it to work? I can’t figure it out.

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#246

Use the OpenCloud API under user-restrictions

url: https://apis.roblox.com/cloud/v2/universes/{universeid}/user-restrictions/{userid}
body (JSON):

{
    "gameJoinRestriction": {
        "active": false,
        "displayReason": "message",
        "excludeAltAccounts": false
    }
} 

-- active true means they are banned and active false means they are not banned
-- excludeAltAccounts if alt accs should be excluded from the ban false by default, make true if you only want to ban the acc and not alts
-- displayReason is the reason the user sees when kicked theres also other options check docs

use patch as the request and set ur apikey under the header x-api-key

make sure to create an apikey

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#247

im using the opencloud api as its easier to unban yourself

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#248

Can you send me the link for it? I can’t find it lol

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