Triggering anti-cheats with just a browser tab title
POC showing how browser tab titles can trigger game anti-cheat detections by spoofing debugger names via document.title - elliott-diy/DontTrustTitles
Triggering anti-cheats with just a browser tab title launched on May 3, 2026 with 8 votes, #1,430 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Quick POC after seeing a post about games detecting Discord group chat names. This isn’t new, I just spun this up for my own testing and figured I’d share it. I wanted to see if browser tab titles get checked too and turns out they do! Some games (like Fortnite) will immediately kick you just for having a tab open in the background with certain titles. This page just repeatedly changes document.title to common debugger / reverse engineering tool names like: You can also put in your own values if you want to test other tools. Games like Fortnite run anti-cheat checks looking for known tools (debuggers, cheat engines, etc.) on your system. document.title = "x64dbg" Your system ends up with a…from github.com
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