Skate.exe contacts EA on every launch, offline mode included: error and
session reports (collector.errors.ea.com), SDK telemetry
(freeform-river.data.ea.com) and remote configuration (gcs.ea.com).
- Block the game's lookups of ea.com and tnt-ea.com names inside the
process (getaddrinfo and the other Winsock resolvers). Installed at
bootstrap, and fails closed like the EA app launch block
- Turn EA's error reporting (EadpErrorsData) off in game, next to the
existing DingoTelemetry settings; the game ignores them on its
command line
- Leave EA's image CDN (dingo-dev-assets.akamaized.net) reachable for
the fast-travel artwork, which only downloads images
- Add a hostname test, contrib/ea-watch.ps1 to check the traffic, and a
short note in the README's privacy section
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
