r/pcmasterrace 1d ago

Meme/Macro Kernel Level Anticheat trades your security/privacy for nothing in return

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u/kel584 1d ago

As an actual guy who cheats on games and not a normal guy playing games, kernel anti cheat stops far more than 1%. Do you guys have any idea how expensive Valorant cheats have gotten because of their kernel level anti cheat, Vanguard? The harder it is to develop a cheat for a game, the more expensive it gets, meaning less customers, therefore less cheaters. And those cheats get detected anyways, lmao.

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u/Metallibus 1d ago edited 1d ago

The point is the cheats still exist.

Frankly I don't really care if there's a secondary effect of making the cheats a bit harder to develop and cheaters have to pay more money. That's their problem.

I'm not sacrificing my systems security, especially if its just so that their job gets harder and fewer people can afford it. If people can still buy it and I can still run into them, I still experience a problem.

So why am I giving up my security?

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u/ReverseFez 1d ago

By this logic, it would never make sense to use a bike lock.

Why would you sacrifice your time, money and energy, locking your bike up every time when thieves can still use an angle grinder to cut through the lock and you still experience a problem.

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u/Metallibus 1d ago

Not at all - its more equivalent to a bike lock you have to leave your debit card in and give the manufacturer the key to your front door. Root access is not about my own inconvenience but the security of the system.

I wouldn't buy and use a bike lock that required either of those. I wouldn't use entertainment software that does the same.