
What if I told you that in-game pop-up achievements are hiding a dirty secret? A secret so obvious that we frequently forget or overlook it? The secret, hidden in plain sight: Games are tracking you. For a game to know when you've achieved X or Y, it must track at least some of what you do in-game.
Privacy threats are nothing new, but they're often overlooked when it comes to gaming on PC. Achievements, for example, are par for the course.