Yoshi P statement regarding third party tools

[Risvertasashi]

feel like they said this before, years ago, and never did it. I'll believe it when i see it, tbh

We've gotten a few things. Shields on the UI, rez targets being visible, people graying out if they're very far away, and perhaps most famously, job gauges. Not as customizable as party frames from games that allow mods, but better than nothing...

Unfortunately, it's unlikely this actually represents a tightening of their stance and more likely is just a reminder.

It is exactly a reminder. Clientside-only stuff, like parsers, essentially remain invisible to them. Tools that send or modify data could potentially be detected - users are gambling on those tools "faking it" perfectly. But anyone hoping SE is finally banning all those ebil parsers and gpose modders are going to be disappointed...

However, SE did issue a take down on the red mage world first clear video - it showed things like enlarged timers, a slidecast overlay, and so forth. So it seems part of the message is "Don't show off you stuff on youtube" (and perhaps they will start enforcing on twitch more now too? Even though previously they said "Well we can't confirm that you're showing DPS and not say fan RPMs or CPU temps and so on").

So while previously the DADT policy was "don't talk about it in game", it seems more and more it's "don't talk about it or show it off anywhere SE might be able to identify you, even on third party websites."

UPDATE:
And another streamer bites the dust.

So... while the policy hasn't changed, and SE isn't scanning your computer, you really can't show off anything third party you might be using on twitch or youtube (or so on). Enforcement's stepped up.