PlayerScope Plugin Dev Responds, Plans To Remove Whitelist & Require You To Join Their Discord To Private Your Profile

IMPORTANT: Not looking to bring harassment to this person. I am extremely unhappy about this plugin and its overreach (as much as I am also unhappy about SE leaving this backdoor open at all), but please don't be an asshole to the dev. I hope they change their mind on making such a far reaching plugin avaible, but don't be a dick to them please.

PlayerScope, the plugin that lets you easily access information stored via accountID (which Square Enix made openly scrapable with Dawntrail because it was the laziest way to make the account-wide blacklist work), is going full public avaibility soon:

https://i.imgur.com/kAiJH1g.png

As per the post, you will not need to install the plugin anymore to opt out, but you will still need to join the Discord to opt out. Apparently no plans to make this opt-in because the dev feels it would defeat the purpose. I still cannot think of a kind reason for someone to want all this sweeping information about damn near every player in the game.

I'm aware other plugins exist that do this, and I am not happy about their existence either, but I'm very unhappy with how this particular plugin will provide both much easier use and crowdsourced information avaible right in the game instead of downloaded locally. If the dev doesn't see how a tool like this being opt-out and not opt-in is flying too close to the sun, I don't know if they will ever see it. And SE certainly aren't going to go back and close the accountID stuff up again, either.

Go opt out once it's possible, I guess. I'm just angry we have this problem at all. I know there will always be bad actors abusing information and people, but serving it to them on this silver platter feels like a completely unnecessary thing to open up on top of SE being careless.