Square Enix wants you to forget that the stalking issue still isn't fixed

[Havenchild]

Lodestone ID is not your Account ID tho. So what's your point? All I see are poor excuses that can be dismantled within mere seconds.

Your account ID is irrevocably linked to your lodestone ID. Even IF the client did not store your account ID directly (the mod libraries support storing information) or wasn't the exact same number, it's all moot as long as lodestone exists in it's current form. The mods are working NOT because the account ID is stored or not on the client. The mods are working because lodestone stores that information somehow and it is able to cross reference in real-time. Your lodestone ID or whatever the "hook" is doesn't change. This is why when you change your name it still syncs up to the url of your lodestone page.

They can mask the account ID a thousand times, and the mods will still work. They can change account ID and the lodestone ID and the mods still "work" but will take alil longer (long as the name remains the same at that point). The only way to truly delink and disenfranchise a potential "stalker" here would be a three way scramble of account, lodestone AND character name. Possible for probably individual help desk tickets but no way is this happening on a broader scale. If even one of those is not done in that overton window, you will still get tracked.

The nuance of how it works is irrelevant though. The ultimate point is that outlawing/taking down PlayerScope alone is pointless to a persistent stalker. There are mods still supported that do all of the same features. And SE can't really solve the problem without a massive rework to how the game, website, apps work and I for one highly doubt you would get such a revamp from any company.

You'd have better luck blocking whatever files apps like Dalamud hook to, but those share similar files to the apps/plugins that cosmetic mods are based off of and the moment you kill that SE will lose a sizeable amount of players they know use them.