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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a rundown of what that means? First time I'm hearing about this

[–] kiagam 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

the game's anti cheat has access to literally everything in your computer. every file, every memory address, every input, every network packet, etc. How that info is stored and used is entirely up to them

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Oh wow. Are there any plans to have this removed? Isn't this quite a major privacy concern?

[–] MrMcGasion 15 points 8 months ago

Yes, it's a pretty big privacy concern, unfortunately Riot kinda already boiled that frog with Valorant. Not that Valorant was the first, but it was kinda the first one that people seemed to be okay with. Weirdly, Valorant only really got popular because CS:GO and Overwatch were getting stale, and neither Valve or Blizzard were doing much to keep their games fresh.

[–] Tattorack 7 points 8 months ago

No, because their plans were explicitly for adding it in. Almost at the last moment too, as if the devs knew they were gonna get backlash for it.