Bakadoon 17 sep, 2023 @ 6:40
How to block Unity spyware from user side?
As you probably know, Unity recently come with rather frightening statements.
According to Unity managers, they are able to detect any installation of unity-based software and tie it to a specific user, so they will charge game developers only once per game installation per user per device. More than that, they able to tell if such installation was obtained through purchace, gamepass, humble bundle, recieved for free or even pirated. On top of that unity is able to tell user location, as they have different prices depending on it. This all they know fom "their private data models".
That would sound crazy if it was not unity top manager and developers tell that and if it was not that Unity was recently acquired by infamous malvare developer ironSource (one that install 10 new browsers and a crypto miner to your PC every time you try to install torrent client, apparently it i legal).

Naturally I will prefer to not be under such a surveillance (even if they have everything in their EULA, I don't care, EULAs are all bs), so any ideas how could I block it without losing access to unity games?
First Idea that comes to my mind is to block unity in hosts file, so I run wireshark and look for DNS requests, two particulary sus addresses emediatelly were found, so I block them

0.0.0.0 operate-sdk-telemetry.unity3d.com
0.0.0.0 cdp.cloud.unity3d.com

However such a naive approach surely will not stop seasoned malvare distibutors such as ironSource. They simply can change spyware domain name and hosts file does not understand things like *.unity3d.com. That of course can be solved by installing proper DNS server. But they could simply use another domain or even hard code IPs.

So any idea on how to avoid spying?
Is there any way to restrict all unity games and all proceses spawned by them to only connect to allowed hosts, suth as steam license checkers and online servers?
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T9 19 sep, 2023 @ 2:17 
:winter2019joyfultearssnowman:
They all grab a lot of information

But if you for example use Discord or so
You shouldn't be too worried about Unity. It's a joke in comparison ;)
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