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VAC is so not-good that there are not one but two popular third-party matchmaking services for Valves games whose main selling point is much stronger (read: more invasive) anti-cheat than VAC, and one of them even charges a subscription to play, which highly skilled players gladly pay to get away from the cheaters in high-rank VAC servers.

https://play.esea.net / https://www.faceit.com

VAC is absolutely terrible, are you kidding? You have to rage to get VAC banned.

False positives with no process for recourse and nice perfect fingerprinting to prevent ban evasion is better?

I think they intentionally have the knob turned all the way up to 0.1 initially, for PR and lube reasons.

To some degree, yes. But there are actually many cheaters that intentionally don't play perfectly to avoid detection. That way they appear higher skilled but still within human range.