Everyone keeps bringing up tencent like it is some reason to be wary of EGL. They are a shareholder, Tim has the final say on what epic does.
I did take the time to read through the threads, and the comments in other forums from people who know a bit more about poking around with these kind of things and the consensus was that this is normal stuff.
The problem seems more like a lot of people who don’t know enough, but just enough to be confident, really want to believe that EGL is spyware.