NobodyAsked-p5p: I used the stalker plugin to find out what type of beard oil Xeno uses and now I'm bald, help?

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TaigaGalette: i really think this is the time SE needs to step in this is way over crossing the line

CaptainRuin: Breaking news. The Github for the Player Scope plugin was closed and locked by the Github staff for violating the Github terms of service. If you pull up the plugin site you can confirm what I'm saying here.

tronaldtv7099: i repeat from a previous video comment: the more i hear about stories like this, the more i hate the ff14 community

dyshexiia: it was shutdown on GITHUB its probably been reuploaded but the main link is now gone thankfully.

mindisfrozen: Worse part is, there are some content creators who have multiple characters, one for streaming, some to play with friends/casual, and now "fans" can use it to stalk them on their off time because they want senpai to notice them!

Kairax: If dev stops, 2 more will appear, like hydra.

SE effed up by doing bad dev job and only they can fix that security vulnurability

SmallSoftBread: The fact that they're using Google Docs as an opt-out mechanicsm, asking users to provide all this unnecesary data and how "Google Docs" sounds like "Google Dox" is just poetically hilarious to me

chaous2000: >not SEs fault

It 100% is on their shoulders. They built a system that fundemantally sucks in the way it was implemented. It works the same god damn way the friendslist and marriage rings work, one way. You delete someone off your FL, well too bad, you're still on theit FL. Divorce someone in game and toss your ring? Too bad, the other person can STILL teleport you if they keep their ring, EVEN IF YOU GET REMARRIED. The new blacklist system was just lip service to appease the loud crowd without actually implementing it in a correct way. 100% pure laziness and bad design on SEs part.

wolv3232: Tel Chan would love this plugin

rooenart1346: There is zero positive spin you could give this plug in. There is no reason for anyone to have this information unless its willingly given to you by the player. Like even some of the worst offended plug ins can be spun with 'well vison disabilities, motor function disabilities, people playing with limited hand movement' like fine sure, I bet thats 2% of the people who use it but alright. Who care's if someone who's legally blind is using cammy to better see the arena so they can just try their hand at raid content and raid with their casual static? Who care's if someone with motor skills uses cactar because their hand eye coordination is impaired and the heads up helps them adjust. There not doing world first I don't care. But THIS is wild.

DrAlberts: The good thing is that this won't affect 99% of xeno's community. Because we don't even play the game xffing

mellar5864: May chaos take the world!

shiznaztm: Inb4 Yoshi P shuts down all plugins just due to this one

midnightnavigator: So the only good thing that could come from this and that is to identify your own stalker.

However, this is a horrible plugin that might spark a really hard crack on any mods. Even harmless ones just for customization.

It's not the end of the world, but this is why we can't have nice things.

This dev should have kept stalking to him/herself.

someoneelse7287: Something that can be done with the plugin is tracking marketboard undercutting and/or monopolies, when certain players log in to do their retainers (or other activities), etc. This enables targeting, harrassment, witch hunts, mass account-wide reporting, etc. Unbelievable.

ibs4541: It's funny how FFXIV is reaching a point where addons/plugins are both keeping the game alive and killing it at the same time. The complete lack of action and clarity about the subject is pretty amusing.

The game is already losing players for other reasons. Trying to address anything about plugins/addons right now would only make it worse, no matter the path they choose. I guess that's the price for taking things for granted for so long now.

otysafiry: SE is gonna crack down on this and it's gonna hurt everyone using plugins that aren't malicious.

meteorolite1063: The developer is most likely a stalker and the opt-out form is a telltale sign.

Froggsroxx: The thing is, it's already released into the wild. Even if the main download is removed, it's too late. This is only something SE can address by fixing their data security.

Rogsnutle: Y'all think SE will do something about this, but it took them 10 years to adjust the blacklist in response to complaints of stalking.

The update did nothing to stop the stalking, it just made it so YOU can't see it's happening.

SE does not, and has never, cared about it's players.

Buhngo: its plugins in like this that are ruining our chances to get the devs to consider plugins seriously

OMGKangelx: This is the sort of shit that is going to get all mods banned. we can't have nice things anymore like just aesthetic mods, someones always gotta go out and ruin it for everyone else

Vampireinarm1: Great content my king, all hail Baldicante

kurtisful: All SE needs to really do is just encrypt the ID and such i'd imagine there ... though think SE probably should just go crazy and wipe out the plug-ins at this point ...

Also the whole opt-in, opt-out things is big reason that Tomestone & FFLogs is awful too imo seeing you need to make an account to control your info that they just take and display ...

Jan 15 2025

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