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Very interesting to see this criticism in a topic about Valve, who don't go there with VAC, and are often criticized for not going the kernel level anti-cheat r
by Ragnarork 5y ago
Very interesting to see this criticism in a topic about Valve, who don't go there with VAC, and are often criticized for not going the kernel level anti-cheat route (by a chunk of the playerbase that thinks it will solve cheating).
They even backpedaled when people found out that they were analyzing your DNS cache on Windows to search for known cheat provider websites.[0]
[0]. https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1y70ej/valve_vac_and_trust/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1y70ej/valve_vac_an...
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- btdmaster 5y agoYou should not need to reverse engineer a piece of software for it to not spy on your network activity. Either way, it's not clear whether resolving cheatsite.com is that well-correlated with cheating. There's a reason why this is called Hacker News.
- Ragnarork 5y agoThat's another topic, but that's kind of my point: Valve weren't doing anything akin to kernel-level shenanigans, and even without that, some of the stuff they did already backfired because of privacy concerns. Since then, they've focused on other avenues to combat cheating (e.g. Overwatch, a replay reviewing system involving the community, or VACnet, a ML model that they trained to recognize in-game behaviours linked to cheating).