Nightborne with the worst racial in history would like to have a talk with you.
However I agree, disabling Census doesn’t seem like much of an issue, since players turn slight imbalances into large ones by actively moving to “winning” servers.
If they’re starting to restrict the ability for players to view realm populations then something is up.
Either it’s a bug or they’re preparing to add paid transfers and they don’t want people to move to servers where their faction is prevalent.
I’ve been using a different addon (the original one this one was forked off of) for many years in retail, with no problems whatsoever. It is used to give invaluable information not only on realms but, for guild recruiters, characters too … a good way of checking to see if people are guild hoppers or a bit vague with their guild history. Heck, I’ve even found it useful when someone applies who used to be in the guild, but I can’t remember them … using the warcraftrealms site I can see if and when they were in the guild.
Blizzard MUST have been aware of this addon … it’s been on the go for many years - virtually from the beginning of WoW itself. I’m not sure why they’ve decided NOW is a good time to block it. Very sad 
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I agree,and i am not a fan of this change.I dont understand why.
Also is the BFA census working? or is it also broken?anyone got any info?
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yes, Census is working in retail, also /who is working correctly in retail
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Thank you.Also from reports /who is working in classic,you just have to turn of censusclassic.
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So, it is only blocked in Classic, Hmm
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Actually it was broken all the time while you had census, even before that patch.
This was happening to me since i downloaded this addon
I wonder, It was working fine for me up until this morning, I’m sure of it
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I could always do /who regardless even with the addon. I can’t now since the update today. I had to disable the addon (which is now worthless anyway) and then /who worked again.
I could do /who but it kept bugging out and was changing what i was searching all the time
An update went out on the launcher this morning.
It was working fine the addon and the /who,untill the last update.
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Just had a quick look at the US forums and there is a bit of info from an MVP over there
- minor backend UI changes (chatframe and unitpopup code)
- can now no longer force the nameplateMaxDistance Console variable to have a value higher then 20 using scientific notation.
EDIT For accuracy IE They only locked the CVar down and didn’t actually fix the bug with scientific notation and cvars.
Not sure if that helps anyone 
hopefully they block auction house scan too
That’s a post from a week ago
A different update I believe.
might just be a side effect, right?
Probably from the work they are doing to deal with the harm that layering is doing to the game and the exploits.
census data was always around in vanilla, it still works on modern WoW servers. This sound a bit too much like conspiracy theory
I don’t think that it’s true. /who queries are pretty light on load. And that addon does not issue them very fast, each query takes something like 10 seconds. It should not affect server stability. Probably there’s some hidden exploit related to layering which they wanted to combat.
Census addon provides useful statistics, but with armory available it’s not very necessary, I guess. Online websites can use other means to count players.
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Sigh, you’re right, I thought I was on to something, never mind hopefully we will hear something soon, sorry about that.
Also I think that they just changed API and addon can adapt. I tried /run C_FriendList.SendWho("58-58") and it worked.