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I hope this tracking software never made it into the macOS versions of any of those games.

• hankhill 8y ago
  to be honest if i was a horrible person I'd develop a macOS version of the spyware first on the assumption that anyone playing on a mac is probably more wealthy (mac user and goes through the extra effort of playing games on macOS? yeah that's probably someone with a lot of money and technical knowledge) and thus a more valuable target for data harvesting and who knows what other purposes....
• gcb0 8y ago
  it likely have a different vendor with the exact same issues, but will take longer to be noticed. there is absolutely no game on steam without DRM and anti-cheat rootkits. none. zero. All games there have either or. including steam itself. It's all a matter of how far they go.
  • throwaway2048 8y ago
    Plenty of games on steam do not use steam DRM, and don't need steam running to launch, including most of valve's games. Most games, and obviously all single player games, also have no form of anti-cheat. https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Big_List_of_DRM-Free_Games_on_Steam https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Big_List_of_DRM-Free_Games... This list is pretty incomplete, and in my experience many if not most indie games fall into this category. Your assertions are entirely incorrect.
    • gcb0 8y ago
      > do not have DRM i said DRM and/or anti-cheat. 100% of valve games have anti-cheat. Both of those run as administrator and have a great deal of opaque control of your machine.