[golergka]

> Furthermore, some of the solutions to deal with cheaters are to play on 3rd party services (i.e. FACEIT) that require you to install an "anti-cheat" that gives kernel level access and is owned by some questionable folks (I won't get into the details of that you can do your own research).

I worked on one of these services, http://fastcup.net, and AFAIK that's all the service did — anti-cheat, although I must admit I didn't work on it myself. What questionable stuff have you heard about these services?

[liamneesonsarm]

The service is owned by the Saudis…and in the Counter-Strike world there was a company called ESEA that is now owned by the same group and being merged into the FACEIT system. Well, esea was doing some nefarious bitcoin mining on people’s computers (https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/2/4292672/esea-gaming-networ...). While that is old it’s one of the issues with allowing a kernel level cheat. The amount of data that also could potentially be collected.