SE Please start caring about your players privacy.

[Rueby]

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I mean, you also know what would stop our data being scraped? Them taking the servers down (though doing so would mean they likely lose money, but they would gain a measure of goodwill), but doing so and releasing a statement would bring more attention to the fact that they messed up (I'd be alot calmer and at ease if they released a statement but I'm not expecting it). It's a lose/lose situation that they put themselves in. I believe the current blacklist shouldn't have released like this, but unironically the current blacklist does mitigate a measure of this. I thought about it alot, I don't believe reverting the blacklist is a fix, because who is to stay it's temporary? What's to guarantee that they'd actually re-implement this and not whip it up to some technical limitation?

Essentially you're stripping any potential victim from a layer of protection while also allowing the stalkers to have all information they need. This is why I don't view it as an answer, but that's just my opinion.

If it was a technical limitation, why was the current blacklist released with such a horrible flaw? They turn a blind eye to third party stuff because for the most part it allows them to be complacent and makes a segment of their customers happy while they do minimal work. I kept myself asking this over and over, why did they release it this way? The fact that someone warned about this six whole months ago solidified that this was a ticking time bomb waiting to happen.

I checked the dev's repo, they've been visibly working on it since 20 November, who knows what was going on behind the scenes and what will go behind the scenes. We've been getting scraped for way longer than we thought. The way that it only needed (to my knowledge) playersearch to scrape user data was pretty damning. All you had to do was be online...

Like I said before, nothing short of taking the servers/lodestone down would've stopped this but it wouldn't have remedied it. I'm not a dev, I'm not a coder, I won't claim to know much. I wish I could talk to someone who knew and would help me understand, but all I see is speculation and misinformation and panic....It's very hard not to get angry at them, I get they tried to implement something nice and I like it...but it really feels unfair that this happened.

I already have to deal with their ingame and lodestone systems being privacy nightmares and having to jump through hoops not to interact with their systems. Why is privacy not being treated seriously? Why did we have to get this...like I feel like bouncing between stages of grief but never reaching acceptance.

This is a bad look for them too...I'm scared of the scenario that they might see the effort put into this as not worth the monetary investment though I absolutely believe they should.
Bottom line is that I feel uncomfortable logging in and playing because this thing is in the back of my mind. DT truly has been testing my love for this game but I'm so tired.

Edit: Seems like the forum has been experiencing issues the past few hours... Plenty of server errors...