how on earth can someone manipulate the clock in chess.com

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So Recently I encountered so many players more than 50 accounts using the clock manipulation cheat. My connection was really good, but somehow the game froze at a time when my opponents left only seconds - 20 seconds and I still had 33 seconds to . Then suddenly the time counter went to 0. 

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https://support.chess.com/en/articles/8615369-what-is-lag-forgiveness-why-did-the-clocks-suddenly-change

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thank you for the article

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can the difference between one player up to 2 minutes? because when my opponents were in seconds and my time was at , suddenly it just drop to 0?

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prayudoadji wrote:

can the difference between one player up to 2 minutes? because when my opponents were in seconds and my time was at , suddenly it just drop to 0?

Your time was at _____ ? (what? 2 minutes?)

That would be very unusual. I have never seen it myself. Perhaps you got disconnected.

Please provide a link to that game.

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Hi
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prayudoadji wrote:

can the difference between one player up to 2 minutes? because when my opponents were in seconds and my time was at , suddenly it just drop to 0?

That indicates you for disconnected. The server keeps the official clocks and no one can manipulate them.

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are you sure about that? because when it says i am disconnected, i can actually at that moment accessed youtube