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Re:Nintendo's use of surveillance and private investigators ... by swiley on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @08:38AM (#25581548)
I haven't bought any new games ever since I started using homebrew because the idea of getting banned really weirds me out. It's so frustrating.
Re:Nintendo's use of surveillance and private investigators ... by Kaze404 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @09:46AM (#25582096)
You're completely safe if you use an EmuNAND.
Re:Nintendo's use of surveillance and private investigators ... by aranelsurion on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @03:10PM (#25585490)
This might need more explanation:

Bans are issued on some kind of unique per-device ID. So you're not completely safe using EmuNAND, unless you refrain from ever going online.

Common practice is to do homebrew activity on EmuNAND without going online there, and keeping a clean SysNAND for online activities. You can also wipe uniquely identifying keys on EmuNAND and essentially ban yourself there, then you won't be able to use any Nintendo services (incl. updates & online play) in EmuNAND but you can go online for homebrew stuff -relatively- safe.

So what you can't have is both homebrew and online services in the same NAND. Not to mention no matter how hard the community tries, each new update has the potential for Nintendo to introduce more "telemetry" to identify CFW devices before community gets wiser.

Either way, there are no certainties when it comes to ban evasion.

Re:Nintendo's use of surveillance and private investigators ... by 14 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @11:49AM (#25583238)
Any updated sites you can recommend for switch hacking. I have an original one so I know it is fully hackable just haven’t followed the scene in a while and wonder where it is at? Thanks
Re:Nintendo's use of surveillance and private investigators ... by Kaze404 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @01:22PM (#25584365)