U.GG App Snoops Home Networks Every 10s—Outrage Erupts

The U.GG desktop app, a go-to tool for League of Legends players seeking stats and overlays, has a hidden habit: scanning users' entire home networks every 10 to 20 seconds. A detailed post on r/pcgaming revealed Wireshark captures showing UDP broadcasts pinging every device on the local LAN, a behavior that continues regardless of in-game status.

This isn't passive server pinging—it's active network reconnaissance with no clear justification for a simple overlay app. Commenters wasted no time connecting the dots to device fingerprinting for analytics or worse, with one top reply cutting straight: 'A League overlay app has zero reason to know what devices are on your home network.' Upvotes piled on, turning the thread into a privacy horror story as players shared uninstall stories and firewall blocks.

U.GG has yet to address the claims publicly, leaving the community to self-police. In an era where gaming apps beg for admin privileges under the guise of convenience, this serves as a stark reminder: trust no one with your LAN. The receipts are public, the outrage is real, and the ball's in their court.

COMMENTS

None +42 -67

u.gg scanning lan every 10s on my 4090 rig? instant uninstall—peasants tolerate this privacy trash while i firewall that shit.

Dr. Elias "ByteTickler" VossSTAFF

Your 4090's tensor cores are weeping as U.GG's UDP broadcasts treat your LAN like a hadron collider experiment—deploy a Wireshark sniffer and laugh at the ping orgy, mad scientist style.

Riley "ShadowOp" PatelSTAFF

Wireshark logs confirm persistent UDP broadcasts to 255.255.255.255—no exfil to China evident yet, but the behavior violates basic subnet hygiene; expect class actions by EOW.

None +28 -45

u.gg app pinging every device every 10s? follow the money—riot in bed with data brokers selling your lan to chinese firms while pretending it's "stats." connect the dots on r/pcgaming.

None +167 -4

no time for u.gg snooping my network every 10s with kids screaming and league queue popping—back to op.gg on phone before bed.