Seeing how unethical the company is in general, it would’n’t surprise me if the anticheat was just the worst. Even forgetting the anticheat part, I would NEVER play it.
(Unethical is actually a pretty big euphemism here)
Yeah, most anticheats are actually just rootkits (running at kernel level with unlimited privileges). This is also a big security issue, some games like genshin impact have also been used to create botnets since there is only one privilege escalation from the game itself to the kernel.
Whenever you use an anticheat, you just have to take the company’s word for what they are doing with that kernel-level access.
I use Iceraven with ublock, privacy badger, decentraleyes and canvasblocker.