Since some Lemmy users have asked me via DM and also searched my other socials to ask me about my old bypass I thought I'd share my new one with Lemmy too.

I also uploaded the source in case anyone wants to look at it (or even extend it, who knows).

Sorry for the extraordinary wait.

Have fun guys :)

Edit: I should have known Lemmy wouldn't like a semi private forum, even though it's all about things like this there. Here is the already build SLSsteam.so + Source Code for anyone to download anonymously if they prefer it that way.

To use it just extract the SLSsteam.so somewhere and then start steam like this:

LD_AUDIT="/full/path/to/SLSsteam.so" steam

Building is easy too, just run the included build.sh

Credits:

Gnanf: Helping me test the Family Sharing bypass
rdbo: For his great libmem library, which saved me a lot of development and learning time
oleavr and all the other awesome people working on Frida for easy instrumentation which helps a lot in analyzing, testing and debugging
All the folks working on Ghidra, this was my first project using it and I'm in love with it!

Edit2: Uploaded update with more hooks because I just noticed family sharig still killed some games

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[–] AceSLS@ani.social 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

For example if your family sharing library has 1 license for a Game only one of it's members will be able to play it simultaneously. This modification disables that lock for everyone using it

[–] 007ace@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Does it put you in offline mode or is there some other kind of magic?

[–] AceSLS@ani.social 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

The lock is client sided, that's the magic. You can play online just fine, I use it all the time to play multiplayer with my friends :)

[–] 007ace@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Fantastic! Thanks for this.

[–] AceSLS@ani.social 1 points 5 hours ago

No problem Mr. Ace! :)

[–] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

They will ban your account and you will be crying because they took away all your games. Dont abuse the system is pretty generous already.

[–] AceSLS@ani.social 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

They will ban your account and you will be crying because they took away all your games.

Projecting much? I've been using mods like this for a good decade. Also Valve has way bigger fish to fry with their shitty abusable shop system, all the people selling Steam market items on other websites and so on. The list is long

~~>Dont abuse the system is pretty generous already.~~

~~You know what community this is in, right? It's all about bypassing and abusing the system to get shit for free~~

Edit: Corrected some false statements on my part.

[–] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Huh? Thats not true. Dbzero the creator of this community is pirate by principle to fuck the bad companies , not to abuse and get shit for free from companies that treat their customers okay.

[–] AceSLS@ani.social 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Well then sorry for spewing false nonsense. I know Lemmy will flame me for this but Valve is still a soulless corporation fucking everyone over. Just not as much as most others

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

far be it from me to defend any corporation, but doesnt this send wrong kind of a message to them? They didnt need to make family sharing, let alone remind you if you can already play a game through it when purchasing one. This isnt typical behaviour and should be allowed a little slack for it, to show other corporations that not being asshole is more profitable.

If valve goes bad then nothing is too horrible, but until that, its kind of bad form to stab a hand that offers a little kindness, even if their ultimate goal is to just make money by staying on top by having good will. I dont think we can expect to get anything better.

other corps dont seem to be getting the message that not being asshole is more profitable, but I think valve can very easily start thinking that being nice is weakness if that is exploited.

[–] AceSLS@ani.social 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You're absolutely right in thinking that way, but this isn't the only tool of it's kind. The most popular one is GreenLuma, which has multiple thousands of users. So me making a similliar one for Linux doesn't really matter in the grand scale of things

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

yeah, i just wish people thought more about these things. There are consequences not just to yourself but possibly towards fellow pirates and bystanders. Personally I have benefitted from family sharing greatly, much more than from piracy as with piracy you have to accept the possibility of malware which I cant afford at the moment. I really dont want to see valve rescind it.