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I always had some hesitation about the Epic Game store but now I am glad I never installed it.
In a recent post over on Reddit a user has found just what the EGS gets up to when installed on your laptop.
Firstly, it is clear the client is listing all of the processes running on the system. As seen below
As well as following up with trying to access .dll files of other programs.
What's more worrying is that the user goes on to show that the client likes accessing your root certs on the PC.
As well as all things Internet related, including Cookies, Keys and other aspects.
As well as a hardware survey, like Steams, without asking your prior permission to do so
However, none of this is not as bad as the final, Despite users not wishing to link their Epic games account with their steam account or their friends list, and without any permission or notification Epic Games launcher is taking a copy of your steam localconfig.vdf. a file containing your entire steam data, Friends list, Games owned, playtime history.
Epic Games have confirmed that it is in fact true, with Tim Sweeney stating Epic "ought to only access the localconfig.vdf file after the user chooses to import Steam friends" .
With Epics links to Chinese company Tencent, it really does make you wonder what they're compiling all this data for and if it isn't getting passed on to other parties.
In a recent post over on Reddit a user has found just what the EGS gets up to when installed on your laptop.
Firstly, it is clear the client is listing all of the processes running on the system. As seen below
As well as following up with trying to access .dll files of other programs.
What's more worrying is that the user goes on to show that the client likes accessing your root certs on the PC.
As well as all things Internet related, including Cookies, Keys and other aspects.
As well as a hardware survey, like Steams, without asking your prior permission to do so
However, none of this is not as bad as the final, Despite users not wishing to link their Epic games account with their steam account or their friends list, and without any permission or notification Epic Games launcher is taking a copy of your steam localconfig.vdf. a file containing your entire steam data, Friends list, Games owned, playtime history.
Epic Games have confirmed that it is in fact true, with Tim Sweeney stating Epic "ought to only access the localconfig.vdf file after the user chooses to import Steam friends" .
With Epics links to Chinese company Tencent, it really does make you wonder what they're compiling all this data for and if it isn't getting passed on to other parties.