Once again here to spread the word, if you are wondering what EchoVault or Playerscope are
I made a thread a week ago explaining the situation
If not, the long story short, it's a Third Party Plugin that tracks players location, name changes, Alts, and more without their consent. Has an opt-out model, which hardly ever worked, and worst of all, the dev had a Discord Channel where he actively mocked people asking for Takedown requests (now removed, but the evidence exists)
It just pushed an update that further automates the process by using Player Search:
So once again I ask to Report it to SE's Special Task Force in hopes they deal with this.
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I made a thread a week ago explaining the situation
If not, the long story short, it's a Third Party Plugin that tracks players location, name changes, Alts, and more without their consent. Has an opt-out model, which hardly ever worked, and worst of all, the dev had a Discord Channel where he actively mocked people asking for Takedown requests (now removed, but the evidence exists)
It just pushed an update that further automates the process by using Player Search:
-New advanced option (off by default): auto-sweep Player Search. When enabled, the plugin runs player searches for you while you are idle in a safe area, cycling jobs to discover more characters across your world. A warning in settings explains that this sends automated searches and carries account risk, so it stays off unless you turn it on.
So once again I ask to Report it to SE's Special Task Force in hopes they deal with this.
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