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Originally Posted by psychonic
While tag checks were used in the original ban waves when IP addresses were blacklisted, I don't think that they've been used since.
Assuming that a majority of users are truthful, Valve was likely using an imperfect, behavior-based heuristic (which also happened to detect certain "allowed" plugins), and would logically be detected/reported from the client rather than the server (so that the check couldn't be cheated/blocked). It would likely have been reported via a GC message, probably not an obvious one.
(This is just an educated guess based on the details available)
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I now know exactly where the detection logic is, roughly how it works, and how/when it reports back. (No, I don't plan on giving further technical details).
If you have questions as to whether or not a specific plugin will trigger their detection, post or link it in this thread,
https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=278391