Quote Originally Posted by Lilapop View Post
Whether you believe it or not it's more likely than not happened. Yeah, anyone with eyes can tell a "bad" player. Doesn't change the fact that people will harass people because of poor logs.
It's a question of value vs risk. The value provided by log analysis vastly outweighs the potential risk of someone laughing at someone else's grey parse.

If we're making comparisons to the stalker plogon:
  • FFLogs provides legitimate value that has a positive impact on people's gameplay experience. The stalker plogon does not.
  • FFLogs does not provide anyone with information that can be used to inhibit your ability to to play the game. The stalker plogon does.
  • The data stored on FFLogs cannot be used nefariously by the developers. The data stored by the stalker plogon can.*

*Remember that PlayerScope is still storing your data whether you opt out or not (it just isn't publicly available if you opt out) and we already know that the plugin was developed so that the developer could track who was undercutting him on the marketboard.

It's pretty simple from my point of view. FFLogs is a useful tool that doesn't have much potential to cause harm. The stalker plogon doesn't really do anything useful unless you're specifically looking for additional information about someone that you can use to harass them. You aren't supposed to be able to see someone's alts or their retainers. Given how salty some weirdos get over marketboard activity (or other benign in-game interactions), I don't think making this information publicly available is a good idea. It also enables a lot of other weirdo stalking behaviour.