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Browsers have since added their own mitigations. Chrome has certainly come up with their own set of mitigations [0].

Nonetheless, a lot of hardware still remains unpatched and vulnerable. Do you install games? Do you install mods to your games? Do you fully trust every game author and mod author? Pro tip: you shouldn't; games can do it even easier. Don't do your business or finances on your gaming PC.

[0]: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/meltdown-spectre/



Games don’t run in a sandbox, they can already access all user data as is.


Mods might be sandboxed though - for instance by only allowing mods via a built in script interpreter.


some games have anti-cheat softeare that runs in admin mode 24/7


Like, super mega admin mode -- many run in the kernel nowadays!




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