Ok like, what the actual fuck? How is this ok with any privacy policy? I have never noticed this because any game I played ever showed this menu to me. Is there any way to not let this fucking “anti-cheat” (looks more like a trojan) to steal every single data from my activity?
Yeah, anticheats are a privacy and security nightmare that most people don’t even think about. You’re effectively giving their proprietary software extremely invasive kernel level access to your system. They can access and do pretty much anything they want on your device with really nothing stopping them. Anticheats like this are extremely dangerous and should certainly be avoided where possible.
I understand the problem of cheating in games, but I feel like there has to be a better solution to this problem, as making users install an extremely invasive rootkit isn’t acceptable at all imo. I’d recommend avoiding games that include invasive anticheat or DRM like this. Best way to get across that this isn’t okay is through the wallet.
VAC is pretty good on that reguard, it checks anything it can on user level and uses ai serverside to detect esp and aim hacks wherever possible.