Would you be opposed to SE implementing a program to scan for addons/parsers?

[solimiano]

A number of anti-cheats in the current market have been found to be extremely invasive. Many are also comically ineffective at doing their actual job despite causing a significant dip in performance. Some of these will continue to operate even once the associated application has been terminated. Some are confirmed to collect user data that isn't anywhere near relevant. A not insignificant portion of these are in fact full blown rootkits, and the sheer amount new kernel-level anti-cheat/anti-tamper software currently being developed should be very concerning to the gaming community as a whole.

Only you play on pc master race, console plebs have nothing to worry about.

[Absimiliard]

Only you play on pc master race, console plebs have nothing to worry about.

Modern gaming consoles are far more like computers than anyone seems to want to acknowledge. They possess some of the same vulnerabilities, and they can very easily be used to harvest your data. They're not immune to attack via malicious code, either. The code simply needs to be a bit more specialized.

Incidentally, this also means some console games do include anti-cheat/anti-tamper software. Some of this software can be quite invasive.

[solimiano]

Modern gaming consoles are far more like computers than anyone seems to want to acknowledge. They possess some of the same vulnerabilities, and they can very easily be used to harvest your data. They're not immune to attack via malicious code, either. The code simply needs to be a bit more specialized.

Incidentally, this also means some console games do include anti-cheat/anti-tamper software. Some of this software can be quite invasive.

And it's already part of the system, and it works perfectly with no slowdowns, no crashes, no issues.
Yes eventually all consoles are jailbroken and unauthorized code can run on then, but for now the ps5 is still safe ( yes I do know some code can be run on them on lower firmwares, nothing that could be called a jailbreak yet, but since you need to be on the latest update of the firmware to connect to PSN, it's still safe).
Privacy??? On the internet??? What's that, lol. That should tell you all you need to know.