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

[Havenchild]

Your main's Lodestone ID could never be resolved back to your alts prior to 7.0 Blacklist.
Now you can do Lodestone -> Search in PlayerScope -> See account ID -> See all alts/characters with the same account ID.
This was not possible before 7.0, Havenchild

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Just to be clear, I am not denying that PlayerScope has enhanced capability, only that if people were of the mindset that PlayerScope alone is enabling stalkers that is folly as other apps can do more or less the same.

In regards to the searching/cross referencing aspect of PlayerScope, you are right in how easily the information is available. As for the account ID, iirc the mods like PlayerTrack pulled your account ID as well prior to DT. This was to my understanding how it was able to identify and directly display when a user changes their server and character name in the game chat. Either it pulled it or it's directly referencing your lodestone ID and able to cross correct between the client and webpage right back into the client that "yes, this is the same person" "A/Server" -> "B/Server"

The lodestone ID from this interaction does not appear to be completely delinked from your account ID within your client. if that's the case, the account ID is recoverable. Adding a search feature to that is just an extra step, but if the mod is storing this info in real time, then once an alt is "logged" by the mod and reverse engineers the account ID, the user is no longer hidden on an alt once the account ID is logged a second time on a diff char. Call it some sort of "white modding" so to speak, but this always seemed possible just that no mod had a search account ID feature automatically built in.

[MiaBlaze-Cari]

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Individual characters are tracked via their ContentID, not their AccountID. The ContentID basically is the ID for the specific character, which allowed the tracking you were mentioning before. However the AccountID is a separate one which allows linking the ContentID to an account. I suppose you've mistaken these 2 different IDs which is why the misunderstanding came up in the first place. But yea, this is basically where the danger from playerscope comes from as it allows to stalk different characters of the same person as long as they're on the same account.