Reminder that anti-cheat software is bigger spyware than tiktok could ever be

Tiktok, as all mobile apps, runs in a sandboxed environment and is heavily limited in what it can do. On the other hand anti-cheat software that is included with all major games run at the most privileged level in ring 0 and thus are able to do anything.

You don’t see the government banning anti-cheat because the tiktok ban is purely for political purposes. Americans want to be in control of their citizens that’s why they can’t let them use …

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