Anti-Cheat Expert: all your pixels are belong to us

ACE, or better known as Anti-Cheat Expert is, as the name suggests, an anti-cheat made by the tech giant Tencent. Now, why did I look into said anti-cheat, and why exactly should it become a public concern? As a gaming enthusiast, I really enjoyed the extraction shooter Escape From Tarkov; however, after the recent events, I was looking out for an alternative. Now what if I told you that there actually is a Chinese-owned anti-cheat that is taking screens of your entire main screen? That's how we come to Anti-Cheat Expert. Anti-Cheats usually use the game's HWND to take screenshots. ACE wants to be the middle child in the anti-cheat family; instead of taking a screenshot of only the game, or at least of only the game's window size, it takes a screenshot of the entire display! Noice. Usually, screenshots are taken with your display width and height at once, or at least the game's window width and height. In my honest opinion, such an anti-cheat feature shouldn't be allowed in a game that is not solely available in China.