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They changed it to try to detect the same PC, probably by assigning a token.
Easily manipulated, though, so it's still a shit idea
It is. I wonder how it is gonna detect different Steam Proton prefixes, because if they are all different PCs a bad actor can simply keep recreating the prefix. On powerful enough CPUs you can create a prefix in seconds.