They banned 11000 accounts in the first week and posted all their names. They're doing something, but who knows if they CAN do more. I've heard from other devs that basically cheating isn't something you fight with software or anticheat. It's something you fight with game design. They tried with the found in raid tag, but obviously it didn't do enough. It's funny that everything I've seen about vacuum looters is streets because in classic BSG tradition the newest map has ALL of the valuable loot. It's kinda dumb. Shit like Woods or Customs pale in comparison to any two buildings in Streets basically. So all the suckers go there as well as all the moneygrubbers like Shroud and they notice it the most. But the crazy part is EVEN with vacuum looters they still leave a 3 man with full T-52's and Pilgrims full of loot. They go out and sell all their wears and get like 800k and say "yeah, not the greatest raid. It was okay."
Obviously they need some proximity thing for looting, but who knows they may already have that and that's the error code being spoofed. I've definitely had some Woods scav runs where literally every container was dry. Like, 22 minutes left to go and 13 containers in a row, duffels, boxes, crates, and caches all had 0 items in it. Not even Wilston cigarettes. On Woods I'm almost more likely to believe the loot forgot to spawn in more than vacuums or just the HUNGRIEST level 4 PMC's you've ever seen ran through.
Cheating and Tarkov are just hand-in-hand at this point. It fucking sucks, but you just have to expect it to a degree. You're definitely not wrong for boycotting it altogether, but there are still the moments when the game feels good and like nothing else. Then there's the head/eyes, precognition grenade shit you just roll your eyes at and hope you didn't waste all your money on that kit.
A full replay system would allow reporting to go from "this was iffy!" to "THIS MOTHERFUCKER TRIED TO BANG ME THROUGH 3 WALLS AT 400m?!?!?!" and relieve them of so much fucking indecision on bans. Just find the replay, check the shit, timestamp/clip it, have a report cheating button, and BAM. You're fucking golden.