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Would you consider pirated games really safe? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've always bought my games on steam or OFFICIAL key resellers (GMG) since I was an adult, but sometimes it has got really expensive.

Do you consider 'cracked games' safe for your PC, your data, and finally your privacy?

You should always support developers, but it's not always possible.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Run them in a sandboxed VM?

VM escaping is not impossible, but its probably outside of the ability of most cracked games with malware.

Even better; Go with a bare metal linux install, and then use a sandboxed VM.

Even less malware is going to be able to VM escape and then also have any idea of what to do in a linux environment, purely because the vast, vast majority of ~~exploits~~ (I should say malware, not exploits per se) are designed to fuck up Windows.

Is this perfectly safe?

No, but nothing is.

Any legitimately purchased game with closed source, kernel level anti cheat could be doing literally anything to your PC, and you wouldn't know.