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Valve: Trust us, our VAC anti-cheat software isnt interested in your porn-surfing habits
2014-02-18 18:10:33| Extremetech
Over the weekend, it emerged that Valve's Anti-Cheat software (VAC) was scanning your computer's internet history and reporting a list of visited websites back to Valve. Obviously, the internet immediately entered a state of privileged outrage, spitting apoplectically and claiming that Valve was spying on our porn-surfing habits. According to Valve CEO Gabe Newell, though, who took to Reddit to officially respond to the claims, VAC does nothing of the sort -- it does search your internet history, but it only looks for very specific markers left behind by certain cheats. Your surfing history is never sent to Valve, and they don't care about which porn sites you visit.
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