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[–] renegadespork@lemmy.blahaj.zone 191 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That kernel level anti-cheat is really working out well, eh?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Kernel level isn’t about stopping cheaters, it’s about gaining system access

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago

Naw, it's about pretending to stop cheaters. It's security theatre, same as the TSA

[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] kopasz7@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Any mention of data collection in the ToS?

[–] Sas@beehaw.org 6 points 1 month ago

And about putting a buzzword on your game that makes people think they're safe from cheaters

[–] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Their source comes from it giving system access and that is what they want.

[–] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why would they want that? Are there any cases of it being abused?

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah why would any mega conglomerate corporate entity want the most valuable and easy to harvest resource on earth

[–] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Computer usage statistics? Score!

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Of course, no unfathomably demonic corporate entity would ever choose to track users and target them like that, to for instance sell products with zero repressions due to a lobbying hate group bribing lawyers to make it legal

[–] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Would be completely illegal in countries with gdpr. I'm a programmer and can tell you every company takes that super seriously.

You have to agree to be tracked. Most people just do it without thinking.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It has system access yet doesn't prevent cheating.

[–] lud@lemm.ee -1 points 1 month ago

Nothing is perfect bruh.