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[–] renegadespork@lemmy.blahaj.zone 191 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 40 points 5 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 days ago

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

[–] Sas@beehaw.org 6 points 4 days ago

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

[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] kopasz7@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Any mention of data collection in the ToS?

[–] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 2 points 2 days 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 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Computer usage statistics? Score!

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 1 day 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 day 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 4 days ago (1 children)

It has system access yet doesn't prevent cheating.

[–] lud@lemm.ee -1 points 4 days ago

Nothing is perfect bruh.