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Battlefield 6 and Valorant's invasive anti-cheats are locked in a turf war (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] unhrpetby@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Do you lock your door at night? Why? Anyone could just use a fireman's axe and open it. Or they could just drive through your living room and steal everything.

For kernel-level anti-cheats its quite simple. Those in opposition to kernel-level anti-cheats likely view locking a door as a small task with minimal downsides, which could reasonably deter an opportunistic criminal, or buy you time to escape with your life or call the police.

They also likely view kernel-level anti-cheats as, for the benefits they provide, having too large of downsides. (providing a third-party company kernel-level access via a closed-source program)

If you're concerned about privacy just dual boot windows in a separate SSD to play games and use Linux and Graphene OS.

In another thread in this comment section I mention UEFI rootkits and firmware implants (kernel-level access is strong starting point for this). Your solutions do not address these issues, which could be important to someone. (Depending on their threat-model)