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Re:Anticheat Update Tracking by MisterTea on Monday June 30, 2025 @12:20PM (#44425057)
> and then immediately hand over control to half a dozen companies at a level that reduces "their" PC to a vendor-owned appliance anyway.

This was not always the case.

Also, the publishers lie about how invasive their software is - see the Sony rootkit fiasco.

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Re:Anticheat Update Tracking by pxc on Monday June 30, 2025 @01:24PM (#44425795)
> This was not always the case.

I know. :(

(Though, unfortunately, the SecuROM fiasco shows that this has sadly been going on a long time.)

I say it's amusing, but it's a bitter thing for me, too.

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