Riot knows what you search on google...

Lord Dominator·12/31/2018, 1:52:20 AM·43 votes·20,459 views

Just try these things out and see what happens:

Open any Browser.
Type in 'cheat engine' and then search for it. (cheat'ing' engine won't work)
Don't click on any link or download anything.
Leave the tab open.
Open a game in Practice tool (or anywhere really, although I do not recommend it). :)
Wait till second 3 of the game.
If you play on fullscreen... well, something's gonna hinder you closing the game, not that you'd want that, or maybe you do? :) Alt+F4 won't work :b

This is on the top of the EUW Boards right now btw.

. . .

Spoiler Alert: The game's gonna crash and you can't reconnect. :b

89 Comments

rujitra12/31/2018, 1:57:24 AM26 votes

The League Client, as can any other program, has access to certain information about other programs running on your computer. This is used by most competent developers to enable compatibility concerns to resolve, prevent crashes, ensure memory is not corrupted or edited by other programs, and yes, to prevent cheating.

Danksley12/31/2018, 2:47:52 AM7 votes

Rito just wants to know where the best Ahri fanart is.

What's hilarious is that cheat engine really isn't useful for League ... its not like champs are sent to the client while they should be in fog, or that you can lock your HP / mana to full or change your cooldowns. Maybe visually, but the server won't honor it as Riot had that happen once before with 0-CD flash and plugged that gap.

Cheat engine to me is more for fucking around with values in singleplayer games but maybe I am wrong.

RallerenP12/31/2018, 3:20:29 PM6 votes

Of course, that's basic anti-cheat. Any anti-cheat software scans your computer for cheats. One way of scanning is accessing your open windows and looking at their titles.

Quite literally any piece of software on your computer has this ability natively from Windows. Windows provides this information. They barely have to go looking for it.

So suggesting that Riot 'knows what you google' is extremely misleading. But I guess 'Riots Anti-cheat knows what programs you have open' isn't nearly as clickbaity a title.

Tuition Fee12/31/2018, 4:44:56 AM6 votes

... I re-read the ToS, and I think it's a bit scary. "We obtain info from third parties if you use their services in connection with Riot services (such as linking your Facebook account with the Riot services via the Add Friends feature)."

I'm going to assume this happened because I'm logged into LoL boards? Gonna test out what happens if I log out + go on incognito.

ı Sona ı12/31/2018, 9:21:35 PM6 votes

It is actually pretty disconcerting to think that Riot's programs are reading your browsers. You could have sensitive information up and they are collecting that data.

[sg-lux-2]

Myrmiron12/31/2018, 2:39:23 AM5 votes

rofl you're correct, i just tried it. that's fucked up.

The Dreamwalker1/1/2019, 12:39:07 AM4 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9rBzKJxbOk

Vandiril did a whole video on this.

Resolution12/31/2018, 3:31:41 PM3 votes

Am I the only one not comfortable about Riot being able to see our search history/files on our computer?

It looks like they collect our FB and mobile data as well if we have either friend finder or league messenger installed? See something in the terms of service about collecting information from third partys... why do you need information about me that isnt League related?

No offense but with how many companies are selling our information atm.. anyway to opt out of Riot collecting information on you?

Dracocrash1/1/2019, 11:54:49 AM3 votes

It's only there to prevent cheating, they don't store or sell any information they get. No need to make a bigger deal out of it than it is.

14daysuspensionk12/31/2018, 10:20:55 AM3 votes

Have you confirmed this? I wanna see you record it.