• GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org
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    15 hours ago

    Are we so desperate that we want what is basically malware ported to Linux? Ew. I didn’t tolerate that shit when I was running Windows, and I’m sure not going to start now.

    I’ll just keep on voting with my wallet, and not pay money for such user-hostile products.

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      14 hours ago

      Why is this the hot take? Have we not learned from Cloud strike?

      The current “anticheat” is literally just the malware industry. Companies develop a anticheat and then the cheaters develop something to break it. The longer this goes on the more invasive the anticheat gets. It is a losing situation where the end user loses.

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        10 hours ago

        Can’t we just have machine learning models running server side to detect cheaters or something? Why do they need to be so invasive

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          10 hours ago

          It feels like a chicken and egg problem for sure. I firmly believe that people should be able to cheat all they want. Trying to stop cheating just creates more incentives.

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            9 hours ago

            Then online games would be unplayable. It’s not a chicken and egg problem, pretty sure cheaters came first.