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  • tarneo@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlWTF IS THIS?
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, most anticheats are actually just rootkits (running at kernel level with unlimited privileges). This is also a big security issue, some games like genshin impact have also been used to create botnets since there is only one privilege escalation from the game itself to the kernel.

    Whenever you use an anticheat, you just have to take the company’s word for what they are doing with that kernel-level access.



  • tarneo@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlPlease, do not use Brave.
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    1 year ago

    Use librewolf instead of Firefox to get rid of the whole spyware part of it. Librewolf only has a single request when starting, to “check for updates”. But using Firefox is the second best thing you can do both for your privacy and to fight Google’s " Web Environment Integrity" crap.