SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

[Krr]

Of course not but SE clearly want those other apps off the table not necessarily parsers. It's just a shame that parsers fit in SE's ban for people that like to use them. Nothing about the use of them when you get to the crux of the argument they're not allowed bottom line.

There's been a lot of off-the-record remarks over the past year about parser use that generally implies the only reason they're against the ToS is because it's costly to write an exception in the legalese, and that "parsers are illegal" is useful as a catch-all way to weed the community of players who use them in a socially-abusive fashion.

There are also dangers affiliated with third-party tools and it would be legally difficult to endorse certain tools 'officially' as ones you could use or that are safe, and it could result in exploitative behavior by any third-party tool creators who got this privilege.

It's similar to how, say, PSO2 says "No American players" in their TOS, but you can relatively freely and safely play in American server communities and pretty freely speak English as long as you aren't disrupting or abusive to the JP players. It's a quick corporate way to remove troublesome folks with minimal due process.

Of course, you should not use a third-party parser. It's against the TOS.