Serinus
@Serinus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Pornhub to block two more states over age verification laws 5 months ago:
Anyone paying will use a VPN. Or find less legal avenues.
- Comment on Google Fit APIs get shut down in 2025, might break fitness devices 6 months ago:
I moved to AntennaPod from Google podcasts. Would recommend.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 6 months ago:
Kinda weird that the top of the league subreddit isn’t filled with people complaining about their bricked PCs, isn’t it.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 6 months ago:
The mods for one, absolutely. Also it’s just a much, much smaller developer with much less oversight (even internal) and less to lose if they were caught.
And trying to sell this data for a price that would matter to Riot would make it even more likely to be caught, and maybe land someone in prison. Screenshots are not okay.
The game itself is probably fine. Most things are probably fine. The mods are absolutely more risky. And all of this is more risky than Vanguard.
Part of it is also the high profile. Part of it is the attention and pushback.
If you want real corporate spyware, check your car in your garage.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 6 months ago:
Okay, do YOU honestly think Riot is taking screenshots from regular players and sending them to their servers?
Or is it more likely that this is propaganda stemming from people who make money selling cheats (and those who are convinced by those rumors)?
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 6 months ago:
I’m a professional software developer. The people hacking league of legends are doing it for money. Guess what kind of activities make money.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 6 months ago:
It’s not really any different than any other application you run on Windows.
User level access is all that’s needed to upload the majority of your files. And we’re all trained to push yes to the admin access button all the time.
If you really want to be secure, you need to have a different OS/hard drive for your games, and not allow that OS to access your secure drive. I haven’t yet gone this far, but it’s reasonable. Lethal Company on Steam is much more of a risk than anything Riot, including Vanguard. Tarkov was enough of a risk that I wouldn’t install it at all.
In the future this is a change I might make, but Riot isn’t in the top five of reasons why.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 6 months ago:
A much more reasonable complaint than this bullshit.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 6 months ago:
Which is why I’m almost certain it’s not happening. So far the only source is a cheat forum. I wonder what their motivation is.
Even in corporate dystopia where they monitor you every 15 seconds screenshots are frowned upon. You never know what kind of sensitive data that can reveal.
There’s no way Riot is doing it. The backlash would be immense, and they absolutely know it.
This agitprop stems from the makers of cheat software who are mad that the risk of using their hacks will go through the roof. Sure, you can still get around it. But now if you screw up it’s a hardware ban.
They’re gonna lose a lot of accounts that they sell at $10/pop.
I wouldn’t mind talking more about security, but I’ll save that for another comment.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 6 months ago:
A cheating website doesn’t like Vanguard. Big shocker.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 6 months ago:
Also any time you open a webpage in Windows, a nude photo is taken of you (whether you’re currently clothed or not) and posted on your mom’s Facebook.
My source for this is the same as OP’s.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 6 months ago:
It’s fake/bullshit unless you have a source more reliable than “some guy on Twitter”.
- Comment on RANT : The thing i miss from reddit is that when a series or movie came out or ended there would be a big discussion threads. 9 months ago:
That’s worse on Reddit.
- Comment on Is there something I can add to a direct video URL to make it loop? 11 months ago:
Javascript is overkill. Open a file on your desktop, name it whatever.html. Open it in notepad, put this in it. Save it, open it in your browser.
<h1>Title of my page</h1> Your browser does not support the video tag.
- Comment on Is there something I can add to a direct video URL to make it loop? 11 months ago:
You can make a very simple html page that contains the video and do it there.
www.w3schools.com/tags/att_video_loop.asp
Assuming you can host html somewhere.