I hate the fact that people can add your character as a friend (non-battletag), and that doesnt even alert you or ask you for consent, allowing them to stalk you, try to gank you or disrupt your gameplay.
/Ignore does very little in this regard too.
I hate the fact that sites like Check-PvP show all of your characters on the account and they can keep doing their creepy stalker thing.
WoW is mostly a game of escapism for the majority of us, I personaly like my annonimity, and value my privacy and stalking is a big no no for me.
Fix this.
Adding someone as a friend should require the other person to accept the friendship.
“/who” command can keep working as it is now, for all i care but “/ignore” should remove your character from the friends list at least or “friend request” should be a thing not only for battlenet but for characters ig too.
You can opt out of sites like PvP.com or any of the others but some will require you to register to do so.
Personally, I just don’t care. Anyone can look up any of my pixel data. It’s not very hard to work out who my alts are, nor do I try to hide them. My actual personal data is all I care about.
If I block someone who is trying to use my add friend at character level then they still can’t contact me so I don’t see the issue.
If someone is harrassing me on multiple characters I would report it to Blizzard but in most cases just reporting/ignoring/blocking works. Block should work at an account level, so it shouldn’t be a problem.
first part was informative.
second part is purely biased and uncalled for and while you dont have a problem with it I for once DO.
/Ignore doesnt stop people seing when you play , your location and so on with you being completely oblivious about it in most cases.
I will give you an example.
Everyday i like to do a little PvP in one of the PvP zone quests, I had a beef with a friend group of 2 blood dks during BFA, now they stalk me and come to try to disrupt my gameplay. So everytime they get a notification i have come online and im in that zone they know what i am doing there and they creep on me.
Also Blood Dks in these zones are quite disruptive because once they grab you you cannot leave and dying only brings you to Spirit Healer timer ress where theyre camping you and your only escape is getting a que and heartstoning from the battleground but thats another topic is it?
I’m sorry, I’m not certain how this works, but how exactly do they end up in the same instance as you?
RP realms such as argent dawn have their own shards in the open world. Its unlikely for them to encounter someone from regular realms. So if that specific zone isnt that crowded then getting in the same shard shouldnt be much of a problem.
For regular realms the prescribed scenario is basically impossible.
However, the OP can swap shards through the LFG if he joins a group there. Leaving the group should insta return him to his own shard however since hes from an RP realm. For non-rp players its basically a 50/50 whether you get returned (at least from my own experience)
Sry to hear that bro, and I agree with you fully. Everyone should be able to be left alone and ignore someone account-wide with one click. If you change your name, you should not be able to be tracked down, but your account should still remaind blocked/ignored. I think wow does a terrible job at that, and they allow third party sites to do more analysis than what would be healthy. People say it’s a double-edged sword, but honestly, if you ignore someone account-wide and nobody is able to track your char down after a name change, the problem is solved short term, but wow still needs to be a safer place for females especially. The imposter only needs to be banned by blizzard additionally, and in severe cases be reported to authorities.
In your account settings you can turn off sharing data with third party sites so that check PvP etc can’t access it and your characters won’t appear on their sites.
The tools are there.
Yes, and sadly this locks her out of using warcraft logs in endgame, and most guilds require it 
Quid pro quo. I wish these tools didn’t exist, but the reality is, that most require it, and people usually won’t play with you, if you’re not on their raiderio due to boosted people
You can hide the logs and then provide a screenshot or just make them visible during the application process.
However logs are different to what afenton said. You can still record your combat logs since uploading them is a manual process.
Nothing is automatically uploaded to warcraftlogs aside from data that WCL pulls directly from RIO.
Then she has to live with other third party sites using the same data as warcraft logs does to provide virtual character information 
I think the problem lies, when the virtual character information is linked to other information, or as she said, a stalker trying to track her down. This is an issue and a privcay breach imo in general, but it’s a rather minor one compared to the direct harrassment she receives seemingly Should never be a thing, and I don’t think it’s in blizzard’s intention to have it work like that. If it was, blizzard wouldn’t provide tools in their UI to attempt stopping that.
No irl information is linked to your character. IRL information is not part of the API and Blizzard is the only one having access to that for more reasons than one.
Well, if you are in a guild with someone, and she shared something by accident, it starts being linked. Why should a stalker be able to know all her future guilds and characters? Doesn’t rly make sense imo 
If you have a stalker then you wouldn’t care that much about warcraft logs and would be happy with the tools blizzard have provided to stop third party sites accessing your account data 
I agree with you, but that gives them way more control than they should have imo.
Thats not Blizzards fault. Its yours. You shared irl information on the internet. Again: There is no irl information attached to your character by default.
You can opt out at any point in time.
Well, I haven’t luckily ^^ But imo, information is not that easily handled and victim blaming is also not really something constructive in situations like these. “could have, should have, etc” is not a solution to something easily fixable by blizzard 
I think we have way too many third party sites. We should have some of them officially partnering, and the rest shouldn’t exist. This is my opinion tho. It’s also questionnable regarding privacy, because some addons guilds require, ask for permissions for marketing stuff. Very dumb design.
Its not victim blaming. Blizzard does not attach any irl information to any of your characters. Thats the reality of it. They cant do more.
What is there to fix. They dont provide irl information. As far the irl part is concerned there is nothing to fix on blizzards part whatsoever.
For ingame reasons: You can try to report them for griefing and have blizzard investigate.
Yes, players do it on their own if anything, true. And now what? OP experiences a problem, and you sit here saying it works as intended, and she should give the stalker so much power to make her opt out of using any addons? Are you serious?
First read. Then respond.
I said she can opt out if she desires. Hiding logs on WCL also isnt a problem at all.