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[–] Epzillon@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

This my greatest joy, i constantly need to justify not installing LoL to my friends because of Riots shitty anti-cheat. This proves that kernel-level is just unnecessary. And ive always wondered how you can claim it grants any protection at all when MacOS users can play without it? Its not like you couldnt cheat on a MacBook.

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I used to bot league of legends and still have contact with people that do it to this day. Botters just switched to hackintosh VMs to circumvent Vanguard

[–] Epzillon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It feels very nice knowing that my assumption was not completely bonkers. Thanks for confirming my sanity 🙏

Although, then I wonder, what is even the purpose of Vanguard apart from data collection? Because this attack-vector clearly negates the entire purpose of Vanguard.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Epzillon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. I know. Even though I hate Riot I guess some part of me wanted to believe their garbage anti-cheat wasn't ONLY a harvester for private data

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

Well, it probably also saves them a lot of money to only maintain a single anticheat system for both Valorant and League, compared to the 2 independent ones they had before

[–] Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you have to constantly justify not installing LoL you might need new friends. /s

[–] Epzillon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Its just jokes, no hard feelings ❤️ Although it is annoying that they just accept spyware to play a game, but hey, thats their choice