>>14820It's proprietary software, it spies on you, and its sole purpose is to enforce DRM (Digital Restriction Management, aka preventing you from owning what you should own, because you paid for it).
As for actual evidence:
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/steamAlso keep in mind that it's proprietary software.
What would they have to hide from YOU, running on YOUR OWN computer?
If it wasn't malware, then they would give you the source code of at least the client so you know what the fuck you're actually running.
Also, self updating software is basically RCE.