SE Please start caring about your players privacy.

[Shialan]

Step 1 is to fix the blacklist so all this account information is properly protected.

This is the only step that can help mitigate this issue.

People don't seem to understand that the damage is done. There are already multiple forks of this plugin. As long as SE does not disable the sending of IDs to the clients and even one person still has the plugin, they can scrape everything.

Also, a quote from Reddit that succinctly explains the issue with ID and name changes:

them changing internal IDs of players wouldn't matter. the data is saved, and account connections between characters that have logged in and been near people with this plugin are already found. until they allow full data wipes (lodestone ID change, name change, and clearing everyones friendlist and blacklist of that character, the house the character owns, free company, possibly even the exact appearance data, plus a lot of small other things like leaderboard positions) then theres no way to remove those connections. Which if they did would create other issues. Namely, the blacklisting, as that would allow [bad people]to just full wipe their data so no one knows they're [bad people].

This really is the worst privacy issue FF XIV will ever have. So much shit is linked to the GUID that you can't just change it with going ALL the way as explained in the quote.