Weeps in measly 33 times looked up
Who been looking me up?! Stalkers.
I don’t exist, apparently.
oh yeah i disabled the 3rd party sharing settings on bnet
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Beats u really easily with 39
Edit: Could someone please stalk me just the once? 40 looks better than 39.
Beats u really easily with 72
I just looked you up to bump that number up.
I had no idea this was a thing, so I’m glad this post was made (context aside). The resignation people have towards site scraping and hosting data you’ve never explicitly agreed to is rather troubling. “I have nothing to hide, therefore any site is more than welcome to post information about me.”
i aint about that, even if it’s an excellent tool against altposters.
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Again, its more about the chars you have than any info about you. Which the site in question does not have.
I dont care if people know my alts.
Im not a troll or orc irl, I dont live in Zuldazar or Orgrimmar.
People want to hide their alts to avoid being stalk ingame? Fine you are free to do so.
I can’t find the exact data pvp-check gathers, but I assume it’s based on a user’s battle.net account. Is it a stretch to assume this also means that the email, or perhaps even the name attached to the battle.net profile, is also collected? I doubt it in this particular case, but it’s not unheard of. I wouldn’t want that hosted, and frankly I don’t even want it to be collected in the first place.
Alas, this is pretty much impossible to protect yourself against nowadays.
The site only shows your alts, nothing more, no email or anything of the sort.
Can’t remember if I have mine enabled or disabled or not. Honestly doesn’t seem like something I’d use unless someone was behaving extremely sus to begin with. It would be a length beyond paranoid to legit checkpvp nearly everyone you interact with and I doubt anyone goes that far anyway.
Not really fond of being on websites I haven’t signed up for to begin with though, but again, don’t even really particularly care.
Like, when I remember playing with someone’s alts (back when there were WAY less alts), could go an entire day role-playing before they’d finally say “oh I’m x btw we RP all the time but this was fun LOL” and I’m like “oh neat, that’s sick”, etc.
Unfortunately, alting is also a form of being able to harass/stalk or annoy anyone you want. It’s altooften (hurrr) the case where alt characters are weaponized these days (always has been tbh) by people who intend negativity towards certain guilds or communities.
So uh yeah people are entitled to privacy blahblah but you really can’t blame people in THIS community for wanting to check out sketchy individuals. It’s not really black and white.
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Emphasis on shows. As far as I can tell, they don’t have a page that specifically states what they collect.
The fact that I have to sign up, i.e. ‘give’ them more information about myself, in order to stop them sharing information about me is already extremely iffy.
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True to that.
You can turn off third-party information sharing on your Bnet account so that you don’t have to make an account on Check-PVP. Just go to account management and then privacy.
Share my game data with community developers
Blizzard allows external developers to build applications and experiences for our players using game data. Unless you turn this share off, some information associated with your Blizzard account, such as gameplay data and your BattleTag, may be shared with external developers. Your name, email address, physical address, telephone number and other similar information will not be shared without your specific consent.
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Indeed, as I learned from a post earlier on in this thread. I’m glad they at least specify the things I were worried about aren’t shared. I’m still not too keen on it; surely you should have to deliberately opt in to these services, rather than having to opt out.
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I’m one of the folk’s who’s not too bothered, given it’s essentially only in-game information, but I can definitely agree that as a matter of principle, it ought to be opt-in.
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Last night I was just doing some bits and bobs OOCly in SW, got some random whisper from a player who was just so creepy it was… Uncomfortable to say the least. They also had TRP, but the vibe from them was of an Elwynn goer by what they were saying, but! My point is Check-PvP allowed me to check their alts, so I could put aside any worries about knowing this person.
However, I don’t necessarily think everyone who disables PvPChecker is a predator, just in the same way that just because you’re showing your alts doesn’t mean someone is naturally innocent either.
PvPCheck is a good tool for those who know how to use it, but as some people have suggested there are other ways to check a character, so even if someone was to disable this function I don’t think it would be a big deal.
People have a right to disable what they want, it’s their data, their sub, etc. If I wasn’t able to search the person I mentioned earlier in my post, even then it wouldn’t be a big deal. You /ignore and move on.
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Better to report, then ignore and move on. If they then contact you again on an alt you can report in greater detail in a ticket as it is continued harassment.
It wasn’t harassment though. It was just a weird person starting a weird conversation in the hours of the early morning. They were pushy to be fair, but they got the picture in the end, I pointed out it was weird and inappropriate, and do not contact me. I logged on to other characters and they never contacted me.
I don’t feel like I need to deal with it any further when nothing has happened after. If people want to report players when they think it’s appropriate to do so, then go for it.
Blizzard normally just tells you to put them on ignore, if you contact a GM and you haven’t put the player on ignore, they tend to wait for something to happen after that with alt logging and thus more harassment. Which I have had previously, which was reported properly, and after a couple of months with multiple reports I don’t see the player anymore, which is a great thing.
Fair enough, obviously I have no clue of the content of their whispers to you, but you had said super creepy, hence my suggestion to report. I’m relieved it wasn’t a big deal and all is well.
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