Privacy from third party sites

[Minali]

Not really

If i see someone hiding parses, I will immediately assume that they are very bad

I hid my profile on fflogs ages ago because it's private information only meant for the other 3, 7 or 23 people in the party I am in, and because I don't want to be associated with a third party tool like that. But of course you are free to assume whatever you want if your absurd obsession with other strangers' perfomance demands it. Should I ever get into hardcore content and people would want to know how I play, they're welcome to run a duty with me and parse that, consentual n stuff. (This would also be a much more accurate representative info, considering my current stats are from me running duly roulettes sleep deprived at 1 am and such...)

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Thanks for the info! Today I learned about that code from tomestone, didn't know it was available for fflogs as well. This would have saved me the effort of making an account and adding all my characters specifically for opting out of that... They really should add this to their FAQs, or make it more obvious there. When I looked up how to opt out, this wasn't mentioned anywhere. Question will be how this is going to work out when you hide your lodestone profile completely, but from what I know the tomestone people are going to respect that (once they figure out the technical ways to do it). I hope the other site will do that as well.

Maybe it's me being from Europe, where privacy is considered an important thing by law (see GDPR), but it always baffles me how little people think about privacy when developing tools like this. It doesn't matter if "you have anything to hide", it's personal data and simply nobody else's business unless you personally decide otherwise. You don't leave your appartment door wide open either when you feel you "have nothing to hide", just because you are not doing anything obviously illegal in there. No, you close it, because what you are doing isn't anybody else's concern.

[CaedemSanguis]

I hid my profile on fflogs ages ago because it's private information only meant for the other 3, 7 or 23 people in the party I am in, and because I don't want to be associated with a third party tool like that. But of course you are free to assume whatever you want if your absurd obsession with other strangers' perfomance demands it. Should I ever get into hardcore content and people would want to know how I play, they're welcome to run a duty with me and parse that, consentual n stuff. (This would also be a much more accurate representative info, considering my current stats are from me running duly roulettes sleep deprived at 1 am and such...)

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Thanks for the info! Today I learned about that code from tomestone, didn't know it was available for fflogs as well. This would have saved me the effort of making an account and adding all my characters specifically for opting out of that... They really should add this to their FAQs, or make it more obvious there. When I looked up how to opt out, this wasn't mentioned anywhere. Question will be how this is going to work out when you hide your lodestone profile completely, but from what I know the tomestone people are going to respect that (once they figure out the technical ways to do it). I hope the other site will do that as well.

Maybe it's me being from Europe, where privacy is considered an important thing by law (see GDPR), but it always baffles me how little people think about privacy when developing tools like this. It doesn't matter if "you have anything to hide", it's personal data and simply nobody else's business unless you personally decide otherwise. You don't leave your appartment door wide open either when you feel you "have nothing to hide", just because you are not doing anything obviously illegal in there. No, you close it, because what you are doing isn't anybody else's concern.

Well, if you are applying in my static, we need to know your logs history so we can see how you managed past content (clear time)

[Minali]

Well, if you are applying in my static, we need to know your logs history so we can see how you managed past content (clear time)

My "past content" would be "half of the time I'm not even trying to play optimised and just want my weekly/daily normal content loot". This doesn't tell you anything about how I would play in a hardcore environment when I am actually focused and prepared. This data is entirely useless for you.
Edit: It is also far from a complete image because I don't parse to begin with and these are just random logs from other people with whom I happened to be in a party. I have played plenty of Panda in the last months and none of these performances is recorded because the raiders who bother parsing and uploading that normal stuff have been on hiatus for weeks. And I bet this is the same for basically every other person who randomly got caught in the third party tool log stuff.

[Jojoya]

Also happy to see this information being shared with the community for those who are concerned.

Personally, I don't care if my info is visible or not. If an elitist idiot thinks they can gain something by sharing it with others, then the visibility has helped out an elitist idiot.

[Boblawblah]

You guys have logs?

[Jojoya]

You guys have logs?

Just about everyone who has done 8 man content while it is current (other than the normal trials for MSQ) is going to show up in someone else's logs from the mod that won't be named on the website that won't be named that uses those logs.

I like to go into normal 8 man raids on day of release so I can do it totally blind. As a result, I end up listed there even though I don't use any mods or the website. I shrug it off easy because I used to do the logging for my WoW guilds so it's something I'm used to and I know how dumb parse harassment is.

Most of those who use parses to harass other players probably don't even know how to interpret all the data there. As far as I'm concerned, they're welcome to think what they want and if they decide to make an issue of things in game, that will be one less idiot playing the game. SE does not like parse harassment.

[Astronis]

Just about everyone who has done 8 man content while it is current (other than the normal trials for MSQ) is going to show up in someone else's logs from the mod that won't be named on the website that won't be named that uses those logs.

Hell, you could have just run a dungeon with someone who records parses and ended up with logs there. Just existing is enough for a profile.

[Aidorouge]

You guys have logs?

Don't know, and don't care. The hardest thing I've done so far is solo extreme Sophia and that was mostly because of being flung off the level.

I'm just thankful I got the mount first-try so I never have to do that again, lol.
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Not really

If i see someone hiding parses, I will immediately assume that they are very bad

What a coincidence, I immediately assume anyone that gets sweaty over parses isn't a very nice person. Guess me and those folks are doing each other a favor then, eh?

[tsuchii]

It's stupid that one still has to do that to opt out tbh. It shouldn't be public if you did not put it out yourself.

[CaedemSanguis]

Hey I thought I would let people know that to have your data hidden on FFlogs and tomestone.gg you can go into your profile on the lodestone and put in the description of your profile:

fflogs-hidden
tomestone-hidden

Next time you are refreshed on your profile on these websites your information will be hidden. Thought I would let people know.
I don't hate these websites existing, I do however hate that they are not opt-in, If people want to parse thats fine but I value privacy and prefer to keep that between me and my static.

hiding parses means that your parses are very bad ?