Actually i've seen a lot of posts (mainly for competitive games) where people just don't want to buy a game without a kernel anti-cheat. Mainly care more about their games being fair than security.
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ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social 9 months ago
Companies need to stop with this shit already. Although, I suspect some of the push towards kernel level anti-cheat actually has more to do with governments pushing for backdoor access to everything. Operating Systems have mostly shut them down, so now they may be turning to anti-cheat systems to weasel their way in there.
AnonTwo@kbin.social 9 months ago
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
I don’t find it surprising that several of the main companies pushing for it (Riot and Mihoyo) are chinese owned. I don’t have any faith that a Chinese owned country won’t be required by the Chinese government to have some sort of backdoor in kernel anticheats.