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What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil? (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[โ€“] 45 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

Software/game DRM/anticheat (as a service/product) that involves code obfuscation and/or kernel driver.

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    It is an anti consumer practice wrapped in pro consumer propaganda.

    The thing is that there are other choices and people need to start voting with their feet. Do you really need to buy 12th of call of duty?

    Asking for a friend.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It works well for the developers. Denuvo games take a while to get cracked (if ever). Valorant cheats are really expensive.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 2 years ago

    Denuvo also prevents easy modding in many cases, causes issues on top of increasing system requirements. Valorant cheats possibility destroys the purpose of the system. But at least valorant anticheat is not being sold as a service to other devs I think.

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