The original post: /r/privacy by /u/IntellectualBurger on 2024-12-19 14:10:48.

Theres been a lot of discussion in recent years about how most modern games for PC have very robust, “invasive” anti cheat systems. Many of which run on Kernel Level, and some for popular game Valorant, keep running in the background even when you close the game, forcing you to restart the computer if you want to play the game. Some run 24/7 like with Gensin impact. It doesn’t help that many of the most popular games have in-house anti cheat from chinese developers, like Marvel Rivals, who just launched and had 10 million players in 72 hours. So it causes a lot of fear, some theories sim tin-foil-hatty, some less so, some realistic, in terms of Devs “stealing data”.

My question is this: how much damage/data stealing/nefarious activity can take place POTENTIALLY with these kinds of anti cheats if a user has a seperate computer ONLY for games with literally nothing installed except a few games, AND the desktop is connected to a guest Wifi from their router with a completely different SSID, password, which is not connected to the main network?

ive read that this is the safest thing to do and makes you immune to any danger?