Unless he was offline all the time while in cfw, and never went online afterwards, restoring a backup could actually be an easier cfw flag for Nintendo, since the logs uploaded to Nintendo might mismatch. They might or might not use this to flag, but this is a known thing that can be detected, while booting atmosphere itself is not something that leaves known traces.Since you booted CFW at least once, you risk being banned if you go online. If you don't want to get banned, you must restore a clean eMMC backup made before running CFW.
So don't restore backups, unless you are certain you didn't go online since then, or you 100% need to.
Just being in CFW also is fine, I'm on CFW 100% of the time for years now (mostly sysclk and sysdvr), no ban yet. Same for a few friends. Atmosphere is actually designed to be used online, and the devs use it online themself.
Just make sure to never install any type of NSP/XCI (not even homebrews) to the online nand, and don't enable prodinfo blanking for your online nand. Also don't cheat or hack in online games, or fuck with the online service in any other way.
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Just going to the homebrew launcher is safe, as long as you don't install anything that ends up on the home menu screen (like any type of XCI or NSP files). Some people (like me or atmosphere devs) are also fully in CFW and don't boot to OFW, while also going online for years now.Hi, I have a question, if I launched my switch just twice in SysNand CFW mode and I went to the menu where there were all the hombrew installs, is my switch still clean to play online? if I connect it to the internet and start it in OFW?
Also, if you connected to the internet in OFW already afterwards, potential logs would potentially already be uploaded, so just restoring a backup might actually flag it it instead. Just make sure to not enable prodinfo blanking for your sysnand.
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