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		Polylactic_acid on Aug 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store Its not just bad UX. Its horrific for privacy. Epic games on windows load a rootkit in to the kernel that starts a boot even while the game is not running.

ohgodplsno on Aug 14, 2020 [–]

Absolutely not. You're thinking of Riot Games' anticheat for Valorant.

The worst EGS does is enumerating running processes and DLL.

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