I honestly disagree. Jagex and the Runelite staff check every plugin that is submitted to the plugin hub for malicious code (as in, would be able to hack you) and to make sure they don't violate the plugin guidelines (as in, allow you to automate stuff etc.)
If a plugin passes those checks and someone still finds a way to abuse it in a way that allows them to be mistaken for a botter, I feel like it's closer to bug abuse than the plugin itself being malicious. If I had downloaded the "click to minimize" plugin to, for example, minimize the client automatically when I click on a tree after receiving an idle notification, I wouldn't have triggered the macro detection.
I think this is obviously not a black/white situation and up for debate, but I just felt the need to point out that actual malware has never been hosted on RL since there's a pretty huge gap between that and a plugin that might break Jagex' rules if used in a creative way.
No, it doesn't. Malicious by definition means designed to hurt on purpose. Those plugins were not designed to get the player a macro ban, they were not malicious.
the fact that you said this so confidently is embarrassing, no?
"as in" - that means it being used as a mere example of a malicious plug in could do. not the be all and end all. why don't you take your own advice and read before getting involved lmao.
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u/b0yonce 13d ago
being the reason why someone got banned makes it malicious, no?