SE Please start caring about your players privacy.

[Exmo]

Btw Yodada, posting instructions on how to use a plugin is a good way to get this thread deleted. You should remove that post

[Saraide]

am I reading that correctly
no way you can subscribe to individual players to get constant updates on them LMAO
I've said so before in the thread that was deleted, but this has to be nothing short of malicious
I refuse to believe there are any good intentions here

Holy stalker paradise, that's insane.

[Yodada]

Btw Yodada, posting instructions on how to use a plugin is a good way to get this thread deleted. You should remove that post

Then report it.

I'm fed up with Squares keeps it under the rug BS. Players need to know what those scums are doing and that Square gives a shit about it.

Dont care if they ban me over this topic.

[Exmo]

Then report it.

I'm fed up with Squares keeps it under the rug BS. Players need to know what those scums are doing and that Square gives a shit about it.

No, just delete your post before this thread gets deleted and someone has to make another thread for the same topic. Again. It's fine it's you want to be belligerent to SE but your post may negatively affect other forum users.

[programcanaan]

Then report it.

I'm fed up with Squares keeps it under the rug BS. Players need to know what those scums are doing and that Square gives a shit about it.

Dont care if they ban me over this topic.

Gotta love how giving a thorough report is sometimes more punished than the continuation of strictly prohibited activities. smh

Edit: and when I say sometimes I mean almost always.

[VanillaWafer]

Then report it.

I'm fed up with Squares keeps it under the rug BS. Players need to know what those scums are doing and that Square gives a shit about it.

Dont care if they ban me over this topic.

The problem is that any of that talk is just not allowed. You might have more eyes on that piece of info on Reddit than on here. I'm sorry, I don't think the average player will check here.

[NaoSen]

am I reading that correctly
no way you can subscribe to individual players to get constant updates on them LMAO
I've said so before in the thread that was deleted, but this has to be nothing short of malicious
I refuse to believe there are any good intentions here

Unfortunately, since the only new thing is Account ID, that would all have been doable since endwalker or earlier, this is just the first time we're hearing of someone going to this extreme.

[Archmortal]

Thank you for your reply. It sounds like you don't know how to properly secure what you're asking to be secured while having blacklisting done client side, which is fine. I'm sceptical it's possible. Encryption isn't a silver bullet here since all you're changing is how the ID is spelled, it can still be used to infer the same information as now.

Of course I don't, I don't know their development practices or what if any entity they'd contract for data security programming if they don't do it themselves. SE didn't even bother with randomized hashing which is such a colossal lack of effort to protect our data that I can't even wrap my head around what their messed up office mentality could possibly be to leave the data raw like that.

[VanillaWafer]

I recommend people watch this:

Blackmage Compendium - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGRfLbny4VM

[Kaurhz]

I recommend people watch this:

Blackmage Compendium - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGRfLbny4VM

So much word salad in this video. But I will say... Sorry if some of this is off base to the video but parts of it were genuinely unengaging.

It's not that people are blowing the impact out of proportion, or being melodramatic about it, granted I think people have a right to be, because it's the very invasive nature of it, and then you have the whole issue with for a lot of folk it eliminates that "I want to play an alt to unwind" aspect, e.g., some people may play their main, and then use an alt in some of a social context, e.g., going to social outlets, and having that distinction removed entirely against your own wises is incredibly invasive.

On the point of "Well they aren't going to know IP Address, geographic location, your computer" etc.,.. This completely misses the point IMO, and it doesn't really excuse what the tool can do, which he seems to acknowledge. Also, whilst it can do no real direct harm to you as a person, it is absolutely something that can bleed over into real life. The characters may be fictional, but the players behind those characters are not fictional, and IMO, people shouldn't need to go into a game, a time which they inarguably use to relax, only to then have that undermined by some sub-par system that is abused through a third-party tool.

Also, it can be far above and beyond every other game in existence for player protection, but the fact is, that it is still a poor excuse for a system, and it's absolutely got poor measures behind it. In many ways what they have developed can actually be seen as a regression, because of what it facilitates by mapping characters, retainers and locations, and this is not just information obtained from a single individual via stalking. If it were properly developed then this would be a different situation, but it isn't so...

I do think players have a right to be afraid.