Quote Originally Posted by Rehayem View Post
I've always found it weird how these websites are automatically opt-in. At least they could've used "anonymous" to hide people who haven't willingly added their character to the website?
This is how it should be. I know I went on a small rant yesterday about it (how opt-out isn't really an ideal thing to do in this design), but ideally the whole process should be an opt-in rather than an opt-out, just because there is a stigma in some spheres, and even in general where if you're opting-out of something that is public information (by design, albeit poor design), then it typically only leaves some people to speculate or assume you "Have something to hide".

At least, I personally think that the system being an opt-in by default would reduce this. I did mull on it yesterday a little and it isn't really great that opt-out is the design when there's API support for extracting data.