from the site that lists brave browser, firefox, netsurf, all as spyware

also lists VLC as potential spyware

also lists the entire HTTProtocol as potential spyware

It doesn't say HTTP is spyware; it says it has some problems (which is true). There are ways to be implemented to mitigate some of these problems.

On VLC’s page it says not spyware in green and then says it has some opt-in spyware features.

It’s also interesting that Steam is listed as extremely high spyware level.

Honestly, Steam probably isn't even that bad compared to the games themselves with the kernel space DRM.

The front page sez:

“We take an expansive and strict stance on what constitutes spyware. We define spyware as anything that includes telemetry, phoning home, automatic updates or is listening in without the user's knowledge or consent.”

That looks like a very shady site generated automatically, unlike a well known 10 year old game with millions of users

It's all true?

I've played plenty of KSP, and when you launch the game the first time there's a popup where you have to agree to have your privacy violated (there's a link to iirc unity analytics where you can supposedly opt out, but it always gave me a page error when I tried to go there. In Linux, it wouldn't even launch the browser and it doesn't give you the URL, so it would be impossible to opt out even if it worked).

Their integration with the redshell spyware is well documented too.

I can confirm it's true. In particular, it tries to connect to two google cloud servers at:

from port 59946 to 35.190.78.8 from port 54192 to: 35.227.244.186

Furthermore, btdmaster's original comment regarding this was censored, which lends even more crediblity to claims, and that something very fishy is behind this.