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Re:Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negat... by NikolaNovak on Saturday April 15, 2023 @12:43PM (#35582236)
Funny, that's exactly the kind of profound lack of empathy and awareness my ex-wife had. "Do anything you want to prisoners; there's absolutely NO WAY I can possibly imagine being in that position myself" (I find this particularly amusing since she did far more actually illegal stuff like drugs etc in college than I ever dreamed of; but these emotions are always outwardly oriented:).

The whole point of this thread is that these systems are not installed on cheaters in a targeted way. They are installed on everybody's computer. They make far far far more innocent gamers suffer than they punish cheaters. And we've seen time and again that these systems misidentify cheaters badly. Think of all the times your Norton of McAfee misidentified your bit torrent client or your open source utility or your own crypto mining software for malware, and multiply it by a thousand.

Re:Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negat... by gabereiser on Saturday April 15, 2023 @01:01PM (#35582391)
This is the real meat. Anti-cheat malware is installed on everyone’s machine. Guilty until proven uninstalled.
Re:Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negat... by seattle_spring on Saturday April 15, 2023 @01:14PM (#35582524)
Fine, then propose and implement a viable alternative that effectively cuts out 99% of cheating in online games.
Re:Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negat... by yunwal on Sunday April 16, 2023 @02:02PM (#35592575)
Or just don’t? If the game isn’t fun with cheating and the developers can’t do anything about it without malware just don’t play it