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A comment on Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition. Parent comment

Re:Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition by matheusmoreira on Thursday October 30, 2025 @08:45AM (#45759427)
> mods are automatically pushed to the clients

I'm surprised this hasn't become a malware distribution channel yet.

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Re:Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition by smccabe0 on Thursday October 30, 2025 @10:45AM (#45760601)
It has and it hasn't. There's modders in the scene who I refuse to use mods from because I know they also have developed cheats.

All of the same supply chain issues you have with packages in a programming ecosystem exist in VS's mod system.

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