Anti-Cheat, Privacy, and Fair Play: Clarifying the Facts

Absolute Fog Of War

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I had half an entire team fly underneath me today at 9.7 without being marked or their models being rendered. I was staring at them but apparently that wasn’t enough for Gaijin lmao. It lowkey punishes certain types of playstyles whilst favoring others…

Everyday I play WT, it genuinely makes me consider playing DCS instead

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had something like that happen before too, sometimes even JUST their afterburner was rendered, which is just funny and confusing at the same time

Guys this isn’t the right place for this topic.

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Theres never a right place for any topics at this point

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… Kamu.

You know, as a Hungarian seeing something called “kamu” is very funny.

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Viking Anti-Cheat is of dubious origin, and their mission statement is to quite literally take peoples’ data:
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This is a GDPR nightmare at minimum.

Was this after Gaijin legal yelled at the Viking AC company’s executives?
Cause saying it is compliant now doesn’t change the facts that Viking AC could’ve easily not been GDPR compliant prior to the outrage.

I’d honestly like to know if Gaijin legal argued with another company over issues said company pulled Gaijin into.

No, they have meaning; it’s just that there aren’t statements addressing what was happening, only what is allegedly happening today.

Viking AC isn’t Gaijin’s anti-cheat, it’s a 3rd party company’s anti-cheat that Gaijin purchased the use of.
Which is why I’m curious if any arguments between Gaijin legal have occurred.
I don’t need to know details, cause details would include privileged information, but knowing that arguments happened would give some closure.

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This seems like a whole lot of words that doesn’t really cover the entire context of the leak and is skirting around a lot of what people’s concerns are

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well the easiest solution to this is for all the cheaters to just not do it and we would then not need anti cheats

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please take your extremist opinions elsewhere

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those damn anti-cheaters, #Justfice4Cheats

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obvious huge /s

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p.s. . . . it’s a joke, relax . . . no harm intended

i mean if you think about it the people who cheat in games would like people to hate anti cheats so that games remove or have to limit them thus making cheating easier

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The question can be dumb but: If now I ask data collected by the anti-cheat on MY account, can I have it?
If no GDPR is not respected, if yes i’ll ask my data.

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strange whole post doesn’t answer any of the questions asked and in addition to repeating yes we look at your reports but if there are obvious replay videos reuploaded on youtube and after 2 years this get banned there is something wrong… as always NOTHING but okay

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Yeah fairly sure they are legally required to do this, hence why many companies have a “request my data” option actually

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Remember y’all, Viking has also been reverse engineered. We know exactly how Viking works and it is by no means GDPR-compliant.

This entire post is a collection of half truths and corporatized non-answers in a poorly-constructed attempt to placate a rightfully angry playerbase, or at least create the appearance of security and privacy.

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They will ask “source?” then get it, and say “we believe this is a clear marketing lie”

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Oh of course, the snail will deny it because it is reverse-engineered so they can claim that it is not official and not how Viking actually works. But, let’s all be honest for a moment, we know how Viking works.

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