• nialv7@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Enabling anticheat means the user must sacrifice many of their core freedoms just to play a video game. And in principle anticheat will never fully prevent cheating short of pointing a camera at the user and watch them the whole time they are playing.

    I hope Linux community can push back. This whole thing is idiotic and harms the consumers.

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      14 hours ago

      Enabling anticheat means the user must sacrifice many of their core freedoms just to play a video game.

      Lots of games support anti-cheat in Linux. It’s critical to note that anti-cheat in general is not the issue.

      Kernel-level anti-cheat however is. It’s a massive security issue and something that everyone, including Windows users, should roundly reject.

      • nialv7@lemmy.world
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        9 hours ago

        No, all client side anti cheats are bad and won’t work. The user space ones are still privacy risks and most importantly is absolutely useless against someone who is determined to cheat.