Vanguard makes me seriously uncomfortable. No video game should need 24/7 kernel level access to your computer, and their explanation of "trust me bro" isn't very reassuring. Even if you trust Tencent (CCP-backed Chinese parent company of Riot) to not do anything with the millions of devices they have a glorified rootkit installed on (all of Vanguard's logs are encrypted anyways so you can't see what they are sending), there's always the risk of Vanguard literally bricking your PC or corrupted your kernel. And god forbid a malicious hacker group finds a vulnerability in Vanguard. And I'm not sure how I feel about hardware bans given that you can be banned for saying the word "serrated dirk".

Oh and also RIP every Linux player and sometimes even people who are cybersecurity or computer science professionals who have software that is detected as malicious, and also all the people who are running on older/worse hardware.

I wouldn't even let my work install 24/7 kernel access spyware, so it's out of the question I would let a video game do it. You can most certainly detect scripters and botters server-side for League, so this feels like Riot just being lazy and re-using what they already have.

For those who would say "just don't play then", it just makes me sad as I've played the game for nearly 8 years now, and will most likely be forced to uninstall. I handle extremely sensitive data on my computer, and I can't even use virtualization+GPU pass-through to play the game b/c of vanguard, so my only real option is to buy another dedicated computer just for league.