League of Legends will now require an anti-cheat app called Vanguard that has kernel access. Out of nowhere subscribers to r/privacy argue claim that the US government already has all your info, so why should we care about TenCent doing this?

Acceptable-Plum-9106

other companies and your own us government if you live there already have plenty of information about you so

AvnarJakob

Why is it suddenly worse when China does it? The US Government does exactly the same thing.

gmes78

Every single app on your (Windows) PC already has access to all your files, keyboard inputs, browser history, etc. Kernel access doesn't increase the amount of data apps have access to. Semi-related XKCD.

If you don't trust a piece of software, you shouldn't be running it. Kernel access doesn't matter, it's just a red herring.

>Third and most importantly it is made by Tencent

It isn't. It's made by Riot Games themselves. Tencent hasn't taken it and used it for themselves in any of their subsidiaries. Take from that what you will.

ca7t

Microsoft is literally sending data about your every click. It's easier to accept that everyone and everywhere is collecting your data. To avoid this you have to spend a lot of time and deal with some inconveniences. This is more for criminals, politicians, big businessmen, journ*lists

daishi55

Did you know that every Intel processor includes an NSA backdoor? And that we have conclusive evidence that the NSA spies on Americans, but no such evidence that the Chinese government spies on Americans? Just food for thought

a-blackw-d0w

Saying you value your privacy and don't want to use Vanguard but at the same time, the NSA, CIA and FBI all spy on us and work hard to pass laws to make it easier and we never know about it, while tech companies knowingly work with them to give over our data anytime they ask and sell out data to advertisers + NSA was recently caught buying our data, while Microsoft has been caught a long long time ago openly putting backdoors in Windows for them to have access, your privacy has been dead for a long time, you're just now starting to see.

-quakeguy-

More and more cheats run in ring0. If you are refusing to install an anti-cheat that runs in ring0, you are essentially saying that cheaters won and you are no longer willing to fight them. It is what it is.