Originally posted by Angrybeard:

I start to think that devs support mods secretly.

Well, their FAQ once stated "We won’t have official support for mods."[web.archive.org] but at some point it was changed into "We don’t have official support for mods."[www.valheimgame.com] so you might be on to something.

Originally posted by FissionChips:

... use that spyware as a kill switch for the mod if people upload it somewhere instead of linking to it. They're not wrong about copyright, but it seems pretty extreme for free mods - especially since most free software is also freely disseminable and these people in particular usually have lazy or no licensing info.

I've also seen them block people they don't like, for asking "rude" questions in their discord or whatever. ... but they make nice mods ... They also need a better explanation for their key manager, and mod authors should actually spell out their rules for not getting banned - instead of leaving it as a nasty surprise for anyone caught out. ...

Oh, I know or agree with everything I quoted. Whenever I tried blocking ComfortTweaks from connecting to their spy-server (firewall/hosts) VH immediately crashed while starting (with an garbled nonsense error - stack trace only contained obfuscated function names as I recall).
But this isn't the right place to discuss any of that - know of a better place/thread where this is already discussed? (What happens when their spy-server goes down? All servers using any of their mods crash just like that? That would be terrible design!)