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[–] thezeesystem@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes the spyware installer I tried to play a few months back and had to do a roll back on my computer to remove the "anti cheat" software it forced installed on my computer.

If you don't care about a program that has admin access to your whole system, that's fine. But I find it to be spyware and malicious

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

Spyware is any software with malicious behavior that aims to gather information about a person or organization

I wish people wouldn't just throw terms like this around. I do understand not liking anti cheat software but it's really irritating personally.

Like when people call a driver a rootkit.