Quote Originally Posted by BigCheez View Post
It isn't displaying "a segment of an FFXIV character's internal account ID", they send the whole ass account id to the client, raw and unencrypted and it isn't "used in an attempt to further correlate information on other characters on the same FFXIV service account", they just use the whole account id that they're being given to look up other characters with the same account id.

This is the devs refusing to acknowledge that this is even their own fault.
The devs don't even acknowledge the entire scope of the problem, let alone what an actual fix could be. Guess we can expect that behavior to be par for the course in the forseeable future.
And as you said, no modified game client is needed to access the information.
But I guess actually fixing the issue in a proper way and having the blacklist get handled server side is "too expensive" or something like that.