iirc, it just doesn't do anything with em.

Let me verify that

It does use it for authentication:

That isn't MultiMC in the screenshot

It's a fork of it and its the same on MultiMC:

I don't think this is particularly interesting to change. It is not used to play the game. It also doesn't apply to all game versions.

Like yeah, we can change the string... But I'd rather do something more substantial. Like encode which versions actually take these args in metadata.

I don't think this is particularly interesting to change. It is not used to play the game. It also doesn't apply to all game versions.

Yes, but it technically spreads misinformation.
Maybe i will create a pr (or an issue, i never coded with c++...) to add it to metadata and create an entry in the installation config for passing proxy arguments 🤔.
But for now the string annoys me.