That's hilarious!
Don’t know if this is the case with BattleEye
They leave it up to the game publisher; same as Proton support.
How is this ok with any privacy policy?
But you're looking at it? There's even a link to a (presumably) more detailed version? I don't know what else they'd tell you though; this read pretty clear to me.
Is there any way to not let this fucking “anti-cheat” (looks more like a trojan) to steal every single data from my activity?
None that won't get you banned.
I don't know why you make such a huge fuss about this. Stupid client-side AC has been the status quo in online games for how many years now?
This policy seems to be rather tame though:
- They only gather technical info
- It's only ever stored on their side if they suspect you of cheating. It even explicitly states that most people's data isn't stored.
- It's not shared with third parties or used for purposes other than cheat detection
If you wanna know what data they have on you, make a GDPR request. Based on this policy however, I highly doubt it's more than IP addresses (for which they have a legitimate interest) and player IDs (which aren't particularly sensitive PII).
An excerpt from the linked privacy policy:
Furthermore:
As trust is paramount when it comes to anti-cheat, we feel that it is important for us to clarify to all of our users that your privacy is respected and protected by us at all times. There has been a lot of misinformation posted on the internet about BattlEye in recent years and therefore we want to emphasize what exactly we are doing in an unambiguous way without confusing you with typical legal language.
While BattlEye needs to have full access to your system’s internals to have the capability to detect all hacks, we do not look at, check, transmit or even sell any of your personal information, data, documents, credit card details, passwords or similar. Our mission is to provide effective anti-cheat protection, not to spy on you. Besides, looking at your personal information does not help us reach the goal of providing a cheat-free environment in any way, so there is absolutely zero point in doing it in addition to it being immoral.
Like most other anti-cheat solutions, BattlEye has the theoretical capability to transmit flagged executable code to our servers for further review. This is needed to be able to discover and identify new hacks being used. However, for normal users that do not run suspicious software this should never happen and other than that we do not transmit any of your memory contents to our servers.
Finally, any data relating to you / your game account is always stored on secure servers. We usually only store data if there is some sort of detection and that includes your IP address, account/in-game name and possibly hardware serial information for identification. This is also mentioned in our EULA that usually comes with the games we support.
(Emphasis mine.)
Given that all of what they've written is legally binding for them aswell and that they're an actual company in a domicile with rather strict privacy laws (Germany) not in some an off-shore scam company, this is pretty trustworthy.
On that note, I just noticed that Battleye is an e.K. ("Eingetragener Kaufmann" ~= Registered businessman); this is a one-man shop O.o
If they fsck up legally, they're personally on the hook.
I didn't know that before and was still rather suspicious of them but, reading their privacy policy, they're actually kinda trustworthy in my book now.
I meant value purely as in $/TB without factoring in all the other properties.
You can get object storage for $6-$7/TB/month from the likes of Wasabi and Backblaze.
For a more "fair" comparison, you can get Onedrive for $6/TB (+M$'s office suite) or 2TB for $10 at Dropbox, so $5/TB.
Though I guess Google does have a little more cost effective plan for $10/2TB aswell that I didn't know about.
For reference: Google's 100G and 200G plans are $20/TB and $15/TB respectively. I'd call a 3-4x higher price "really bad value".
Good enough for me, hasn’t let me down yet in these years!
Ah so you've already got it. In that case it's fine and you shouldn't get another one. My entire comment assumes these components are to be bought new.
As long as it fits, there shouldn’t be problems, though, right?
I wouldn't risk it not fitting. Even if it could technically fit, I'd want a couple cm wiggle room because you must keep in mind that you need to get the GPU in and out and you just never know whether you might need to run a cable somewhere.
1ms MPRT
These are the BS "specifications" I was talking about.
Read/watch actual reviews where they measure response times. A "1 ms" specification has been found on anything between 0.something ms OLEDs and ancient terrible VA panels with 30+ ms response times for most transitions. It does not mean anything at all.
should be enough for non-competitive gaming
Response times matter a bit more for competitive gaming but not as much as you might think.
Response times are mainly a component of moving image quality, not input lag; don't confuse the two. Input lag is fine on most panels marketed for gaming though even there YMMV. Again, look up reviews which measure things these.
at this capacity and form factor (3.5") I don’t believe any manufacturer makes SMR drives
My last update on this was the complete inverse of that statement.
To my surprise however, the linked 1TB Blue is CMR. (Not sure if it's the actual 1TB blue OP has but given they stated it's >5 years old, it's probably not but also still not SMR.)
The 2TB Red is SMR trash though: https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-red-sata-hdd
Why the extra case fans? Your case comes with two I think and that's enough.
DR4 is kinda meh IIRC. There are options that are cheaper and better.
RAM and MoBo are fine.
I'd take a shorter GPU if it's that close.
Have you looked up response time measurements for the monitor? (Not specs, those don't mean anything.)
Why so much storage? I'd get a 1TB SSD and buy more on a as-needed basis unless you know your current requirements are higher.
Even then, please don't buy such small HDDs; they're really poor value and these ones are probably SMR trash. 8TB+ is where it's at: For the price of the 1TB and 2TB one you could got a single 8TB HDD. 16TB+ have even better value.
Really look out for SMR though, you do not want it.
If that's your stance, you don't need to worry about any of Kuketz' findings in LOS.
Note that, by its nature, µG "leaks" quite a bit more data to Google. It tries to do so as little as possible but it's still a helluvalot more than just pure LOS.
Sadly a necessity though.
Well, you're in luck then since everything listed in that article is very far away from critical data source such as touches, apps or microphone/camera.
The most "severe" data "leak" described IMO is the connection between public IP address and nearest cell tower for AGPS.
Actual severe data leaks start when you decide to install Google ~~Spy~~Play Services.
I'm a bit biased of course but you sound like you'd enjoy NixOS.
NixOS is immutable but quite a bit more tinkerable than Silverblue. Not quite Arch or Void levels of tinkering but this topic is not as black and white as it may seem.
Not yet in upstream NixOS but: https://github.com/nix-community/lanzaboote
Unrelated to evangelising you into NixOS but I'm curious: Why does a VPN proxy software have any hard dependency on a process manager?