Its still not confirmed.

It appears that Valve implemented a captcha to the trade offer page in order to kill bots or gambling activity.

CSGOShop responded:

csgoshopdotcom:
We (CSGOShop) have investigated, our bots are unaffected as they don't hit the pages that trigger the captcha. This looks to be a SIH killer though.
-Trade bots are fine

You only get this captcha if you visit your trade offer page very often.

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buh

8 years ago
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This looks to be a SIH killer though.

Not a bad thing, knowing what has become of SIH... they're just playing it safe before something bad happens.

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If you use Mobile Auth its safe, its not like SIH can auto confirm your trades.
Anyway, i think its a good thing to kill SIH, i dont want to use an app owned by some gambling website.

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Many people just switched to the older version. Like me with Firefox. The original dev barely updated it, the gambling site ignored it completely.

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Unfortunately it won't run on newer versions of FF (past 47b6 I believe)....due to the extension not being signed. I kinda miss it but I'd rather keep my browser up to date, tbh.

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You can use Cyberfox which doesn't require signing.

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Hey thanks for the tip Tris, I have it all working ace at the moment after transferring my profile over d-(^‿^)s

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Hey Tris, would it work for other browsers besides FF?
like Slimjet which allows same extensions chrome uses, but it's more configurable.
I also have WaterFox and Cyberfox but haven't used those much.

the stand alone version was killed tho, with Valve changing/breaking things so often I'm not sure it's a goood idea to run an outdated discontinued extension, who knows what could happen?

ps. When I heard SIH was bought for a gambling site I disabled and uninstalled it, few months pass and heard people used it and it was ok, aparently, since I missed the features (but hate the ads and considerable lag/slowdowns it has now) I got it back until now...

Is the jury reached a final veredict?
shall the extension be exter-minated or allowed to live and work for a better world?

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I'd love for someone to continue it, but that isn't happening, and I can't even get it signed for personal use (can't be accepted since it did some stuff in a way they don't accept any longer), so I use a different browser release like Tristar mentioned.

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Not seeing any ads yet, well after seeing your comment I did find one when clicking on the SIH icon in the trade section. Even then I don't like the idea of it being owned by a betting site, so where can you find a previous version or an alternative extension?

As an aside issue: In the icon it has an off message but still seems to work as I can select several items for sale and other of the functions of it, what does the off means?

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thx

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Thanks.

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SIH?

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SIH = Steam Inventory Helper
AKA the extension that was recently bought by a gambling site (and immediately filled with ads)

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bots never access trade offer page, so its all fine :)

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RIP bots?

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nah they will back engineering it in few hours probably

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ArchiBoT is fine, I suspect this will be killer only for poorly coded scripts and bots, I used event-based scheme for a reason to avoid spamming Steam with useless requests.

BTW, only accepting trade requires going through steamcommunity - rest can be done via API, so the amount of requests that have to be sent dramatically decreases if somebody is coding the bot in proper way. Sadly, majority does not.

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I don't think I ever met the combination of "coding" and "proper way" in a sentence about a real-world scenario without a "should" or a "not" near them somewhere…

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