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  - This (whatever it is) will lead to vendor lock in and more incompatibilities as usual
  - It will cause privacy problems, despite little hip kids pretending that caring about privacy is not cool, then again video cards are already full of privacy problems, and just connecting to an online game uniquely identifies you. These are not the end of the world but they are a misfeature.
  - It will cause security problems. Every time someone implements some trash like this that mentions it "has security" in an abstract content-free marketing description, it causes vulns. Cloudflare leaking bank passwords to other websites and the RCE in Intel ME come to mind
  - This is the 1000th time an OS/hardware vendor has proposed a "security" gimmick that we are all forced to put up with because of mindless consumers. The previous 999 things have failed to even remotely achieve their goal.
  - Whatever it is does not conceptually solve game cheating; the multiplayer design meta is broken and in flux for the last 30 years. Right now anyone can make their own client for a game. Is this allowed? Oh no it renders shadows with a different set of pixels, what will we do? Oh wait, so do video cards probably (not into 3D so no idea).
> Oh no, video platforms don't want me pirating their stuff.

Video piracy is literally impossible to prevent, why even bring that up.



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