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[โ€“] Anivia@feddit.org 20 points 1 day 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

[โ€“] Epzillon@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

It feels very nice knowing that my assumption was not completely bonkers. Thanks for confirming my sanity ๐Ÿ™

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.

[โ€“] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Epzillon@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours 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

[โ€“] Anivia@feddit.org 1 points 10 hours 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