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[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

At the end of the article, my takeaway is "anti-cheat is a tool used by bad developers to fix their security issues." Properly written games are more resistant to bad clients, regardless of anti-cheat usage.

I'm also reminded of a Microsoft blog: What if two programs did this? which leads to being unable to play Battlefield 6 while Valorant is installed.

Edit: Better article about bf6 + valorant