How is SE gonna ban someone using a QOL3rd party program?

[LittleImp]

Can someone provide the source where Yoshi-P states this? I’m curious because I’ve seen this recently a lot in support of mods.

During one of the Liveletters, can't remember which one.

Yes… though… I think you would know if you thought about it. And also, we sometimes get reports from people where someone is using these tools in a video… and frankly speaking, we honestly don’t know. It might appear as so, in appearance, but like they could just say that it’s the CPU temp and if they don’t make it look like that, they won’t know their CPU temps… So like what the hell do we do? Like we can’t exactly take their PC and investigate it. So like, just as we said earlier, if you take the data coming to the PC and you process that on a calculator, that’s not affecting the server, we can’t even trace it. And if we install a spyware in the FFXIV client to investigate what the user is doing, WE will be sued. Yeah.

He's made lots of statements to this effect which basically boil down to "All we can do is ask you not to use them, but realistically we cannot stop you". Worth nothing this ONLY applies to tools that parse existing information. Packetspoofers and stuff absolutely can be detected if they desire.

Here's one of the places he's talked about it
Edit:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_i6mjiGerU