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Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code

While I haven’t looked into this particular anti-cheat; they frequently prevent Linux users from playing altogether, ban users due to false positives, and sometimes even gain/require access to data entirely unrelated to gaming, such as your personal documents or even browser data (cookies, history, passwords/tokens, etc) as many of them contain Rootkits

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Nindelofocho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
On top of that they dont really seem to actually stop cheating. Im sure they reduce it but games with anti cheat still deal with a ton of cheaters

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BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Seriously, personal documents? What in the ever loving fuck. Jeez, no I don’t want to play your game so bad I need to prove it with a passport.

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- Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  To be fair, they aren’t specifically targeting this data.
  
  Rootkits give the software unrestricted access to all the data on the computer. You then trust that they don’t use that access for anything nefarious… Aswell as trusting there’s no bugs/vulnerabilities in that software that give a third party access to that data.
  
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  - BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Ah, my misunderstanding - kernel level anti-cheat is also a bit bizarre tbh, like people really really don’t understand the level of control they’re handing over to random games companies.
    
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