diff --git a/frontend/electron/main.ts b/frontend/electron/main.ts
index 1622459..867701e 100644
--- a/frontend/electron/main.ts
+++ b/frontend/electron/main.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import axios from 'axios';
 import fs from 'fs';
 import { pathToFileURL } from 'url';
 import { fetchProfileData, scrapeBanStatus } from './services/steam-web';
-import { scrapeCooldown } from './services/scraper';
+import { scrapeCooldown, SteamAuthError } from './services/scraper';
 import { steamClient, LocalSteamAccount } from './services/steam-client';
 import { BackendService } from './services/backend';
 
@@ -247,7 +247,12 @@ const scrapeAccountData = async (account: Account) => {
           if (backend) await backend.pushCooldown(account.steamId, undefined, now.toISOString());
         }
       } catch (e: any) {
-        if (e.message.includes('cookie') || e.message.includes('Sign In')) account.authError = true;
+        if (e instanceof SteamAuthError) {
+          account.authError = true;
+        } else {
+          console.error(`[Scraper] Temporary error for ${account.personaName}: ${e.message}`);
+        }
+      }
       }
     }
     if (backend && !account._id.startsWith('shared_')) {
diff --git a/frontend/electron/services/scraper.ts b/frontend/electron/services/scraper.ts
index e470573..58bd2e2 100644
--- a/frontend/electron/services/scraper.ts
+++ b/frontend/electron/services/scraper.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ export interface CooldownData {
   expiresAt?: Date;
 }
 
+// Custom error to identify session death
+export class SteamAuthError extends Error {
+  constructor(message: string) {
+    super(message);
+    this.name = "SteamAuthError";
+  }
+}
+
 export const scrapeCooldown = async (steamId: string, steamLoginSecure: string): Promise<CooldownData> => {
   const url = `https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/${steamId}/gcpd/730?tab=matchmaking`;
   
@@ -15,16 +23,21 @@ export const scrapeCooldown = async (steamId: string, steamLoginSecure: string):
         'Cookie': steamLoginSecure,
         'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
       },
-      timeout: 10000
+      timeout: 10000,
+      validateStatus: (status) => status < 500 // Allow redirects to handle them manually
     });
 
+    // If Steam redirects us to the login page, the cookie is dead
+    if (response.data.includes('Sign In') || response.request.path.includes('/login')) {
+      throw new SteamAuthError('Invalid or expired steamLoginSecure cookie');
+    }
+
     const $ = cheerio.load(response.data);
     
-    if (response.data.includes('Sign In') || !response.data.includes('Personal Game Data')) {
-      throw new Error('Invalid or expired steamLoginSecure cookie');
+    if (!response.data.includes('Personal Game Data')) {
+      throw new SteamAuthError('Session invalid: Personal Game Data not accessible');
     }
 
-    // 1. Locate the specific table containing cooldown info
     let expirationDate: Date | undefined = undefined;
 
     $('table').each((_, table) => {
@@ -36,15 +49,10 @@ export const scrapeCooldown = async (steamId: string, steamLoginSecure: string):
         rows.each((_, row) => {
           const dateText = $(row).find('td').eq(expirationIndex).text().trim();
           if (dateText && dateText !== '') {
-            // Steam uses 'GMT' which some JS engines don't parse well, replace with 'UTC'
             const cleanDateText = dateText.replace(' GMT', ' UTC');
             const parsed = new Date(cleanDateText);
-            
             if (!isNaN(parsed.getTime())) {
-              // We want the newest expiration date found
-              if (!expirationDate || parsed > (expirationDate as Date)) {
-                expirationDate = parsed;
-              }
+              if (!expirationDate || parsed > (expirationDate as Date)) expirationDate = parsed;
             }
           }
         });
@@ -52,11 +60,7 @@ export const scrapeCooldown = async (steamId: string, steamLoginSecure: string):
     });
 
     if (expirationDate && (expirationDate as Date).getTime() > Date.now()) {
-      console.log(`[Scraper] Found active cooldown until: ${(expirationDate as Date).toISOString()}`);
-      return {
-        isActive: true,
-        expiresAt: expirationDate
-      };
+      return { isActive: true, expiresAt: expirationDate };
     }
 
     const content = $('#personal_game_data_content').text();
@@ -66,7 +70,8 @@ export const scrapeCooldown = async (steamId: string, steamLoginSecure: string):
 
     return { isActive: false };
   } catch (error: any) {
-    console.error(`[Scraper] Error for ${steamId}:`, error.message);
-    throw error;
+    if (error instanceof SteamAuthError) throw error;
+    console.error(`[Scraper] Network/Internal Error for ${steamId}:`, error.message);
+    throw error; // Generic errors don't trigger re-auth
   }
 };