To the people who are going to make the Red Shell spyware discussion.

[Joseph Mendoza Ábalos]

Check info before you post something like this.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/4000/discussions/5/1648791520847033361/

For lazy:
Clarification Thread Regarding About The Spyware Rumor
Please note that Facepunch Studios, developers of Garry's Mod and Rust, have recently updated their EULA to reflect on analytics data that is processed to help fix issues with their games, which include past, present and future.

After the 30th April EULA update, controversy has stirred up causing players to believe their data is being stolen through the use of two DLL files included with all Facepunch games as of the time the EULA update was in place: Analytics.dll and GameAnalytics.dll.

This is not true; two developers, Garry Newman and Willox, have confirmed in a guide encouraging to remove these files and block the IP addresses, that the two files are indeed only used to help the developers implement new features and fixes faster by collecting data from in-game sessions. In an earlier revision of the guide, though, blacklisting the IPs that the data is sent through would have broken a certain amount of services and applications hosted on an Amazon Web Services cluster server; however with the latest revision of the guide, this is no longer the case as a section has been changed to only blacklist certain hostnames related to RedShell and Facepunch's services.

Blacklisting the Facepunch API hostnames or removing the two DLL files (or both) isn't mandatory, as again, they are only used to process analytics data for game startups and to help deploy improvements and fix issues with their games.

A section of their EULA has stated that they reserve the right to monitor players' communications (traffic data) in special cases (for example: when a player has recieved enough reports of targeted harassment in-game) and are allowed to submit the data to other companies and their partners for further analysis.

You can observe the comment made by a developer here[cdn.discordapp.com] and read their End-User License Agreement (EULA) documenting the new changes by following this link.

This thread has been updated to reflect on the latest developments.

Credit to Irekaan

[South Gloucestershire Council]

Almost all of this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. They try and use the argument that it isn't spyware because they recommend deleting it. Why the ♥♥♥♥ would anyone put it in their EULA that they are allowed to take intrusive data and claim they are only recording startups and other non intrusive data? because they are lying.

[MydoomfesT]

Originally posted by The Wizard:

Almost all of this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. They try and use the argument that it isn't spyware because they recommend deleting it. Why the ♥♥♥♥ would anyone put it in their EULA that they are allowed to take intrusive data and claim they are only recording startups and other non intrusive data? because they are lying.

Intrusive? It's not like they are using it to steal your credit card details.

[RST will clear a 12 block 4 ITL]

Originally posted by The Wizard:

Almost all of this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. They try and use the argument that it isn't spyware because they recommend deleting it. Why the ♥♥♥♥ would anyone put it in their EULA that they are allowed to take intrusive data and claim they are only recording startups and other non intrusive data? because they are lying.

do you drop your ♥♥♥♥♥♥' social security number in chat?

[Trobby]

If i found a bug with the game, i would report it directly, not shrug it off because i have Micro Spyware™ "collecting game and session data to add new features and fix things faster!"

Also, what does data about a version of the game without the "new features" have to do with the new version of the game with those "new features"?