Civilization VI removes Red Shell ad-tracking software

Re:Civilization VI removes Red Shell ad-tracking software by durzagott on Friday July 20, 2018 @10:14AM (#17575135)

Just to answer your question properly, I don't think you need to reinstall your PC to get rid of it. Most games are now removing it through an update.

There's a thread on Reddit that collates which games are still using Red Shell and which have removed it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/8pud8b/psa_red_shell...

I think you can just uninstall the ones that aren't planning to remove it yet.

Also, you can opt-out from RedShell's website. Although it doesn't seem straight forward to me: https://redshell.io/optout

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Re:Civilization VI removes Red Shell ad-tracking software by ryandrake on Friday July 20, 2018 @10:35AM (#17575308)

It would be nice if malware and antivirus scanners could find/remove it too. I'm kind of miffed that the antivirus software I pay for let this stuff remain on my Windows partition for months even after the software was known to exist.

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Re:Civilization VI removes Red Shell ad-tracking software by icebraining on Friday July 20, 2018 @12:56PM (#17576727)

Removing it will probably break the game (it's a DLL loaded by the game executable, and I'm guessing most game devs don't bother to correctly handle its absence).

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Re:Civilization VI removes Red Shell ad-tracking software by uremog on Friday July 20, 2018 @03:44PM (#17578273)

People were suggesting the home remedy of adding redshell sites that the software reports to to your hosts list.

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