Does using a game wiki affect anti-cheat verification?

Hi friends, I have a website about casinos, wikis, and forum. Someone asked me if game wikis could be detected by anti-cheat software. I would like to know if you share or read game cheats/wikis for your game, do the anti-cheat software for your game catch any kind of false positives?

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ReplayabilityFactor
ReplayabilityFactorAnswered on 12/22
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Anti-Cheat will not detect your Wiki. They won’t detect any “cheating” because your Wiki is not a cheat tool. It is merely an information source that offers strategies and advice on how to play the game legally. Anti-Cheats aren’t concerned about information, they are concerned about memory hacks, scripts, and other programs that alter the game. A user reading a Wiki is no more guilty of cheating than they are when reading a book of strategies. As long as the cheats they are copying from are not within a program or a browser extension (like a bot) then they shouldn’t have issues. In general: Cheat website with text and image content? Good to go. App that autofills textfields or changes variables? Not good. So as long as your users don’t use a modified browser extension or download a modified version of the Wiki, they should never have a problem. Tell them to keep things clean.

CollisionCheck
CollisionCheckAnswered on 12/22

A wiki shouldn't be detected by an anti-cheat program, unless the wiki has code or scripting and you use it to type cheat codes into a game. It’s not common, but it can happen. If your wiki doesn’t have anything illegal or exploitative, you’ll probably be fine. Just make sure you don’t do anything risky.

DesignBreakdown
DesignBreakdownAnswered on 12/23

anti-cheat software is designed to detect only scripts, memory hacking, and other modifications of the executable file. Wiki pages, discussions, or even pure “guides” will not raise any alarms as they are not considered cheats by themselves. This said, if you are automating gameplay with such information from the wiki (or using some kind of browser extension to read it), this may be a problem. Merely reading the material on wiki pages should not be an issue.

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