People seem to care about this much more than they should. It's trivial to modify the game to avoid chat reports, both clientside and serverside. The chat reports depend on having all messages sent to the server cryptographically signed by the players. If either the players or the server simply strip those signatures from the message, the messages can no longer be proven to originate from the players sending them, and therefore chat reports will no longer work. There are already mods out that do exactly that:
Pretty much. There is a server setting, enforce-secure-profile, that forces players to sign their messages, but obviously most servers would likely have that turned off.
People seem to care about this much more than they should. It's trivial to modify the game to avoid chat reports, both clientside and serverside. The chat reports depend on having all messages sent to the server cryptographically signed by the players. If either the players or the server simply strip those signatures from the message, the messages can no longer be proven to originate from the players sending them, and therefore chat reports will no longer work. There are already mods out that do exactly that:
Fabric/Forge: https://modrinth.com/mod/no-chat-reports
Spigot: https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/noencryption.102902/
Wow, that's hilarious that the chat reporting doesn't even work reliably then?
Pretty much. There is a server setting, enforce-secure-profile, that forces players to sign their messages, but obviously most servers would likely have that turned off.