Is there an addon that can track if players use DBM or some other timer addon?
No - you can’t track what is happening in another players Shell
I believe you can check who has DBM installed if you have DBM yourself and are in their party
i thought that too but cant find out how to track it in dbm settings
Typing /dbm version will print out some info. Not sure if it will directly say who has or not
It actually does state who has DBM and what date their release is from
People can download DBM and disable everything on it, and the DBM can still answer to your request so no 
You can send a version request - which will let you know if another player is potentially using DMB and is in your group, but you can disable that feature AND it won’t tell you if they have an alternative add-on installed.
So the answer is NO - you can’t see what Add-Ons other players have installed.
Probably 99% of players are using default DBM settings though, which does tell you their version. So no, it’s not a simple no answer
Actually - it is - you cannot tell which add-ons other players have installed.
That DBM even has the ability to acknowledge a common user in a group is damned sloppy code
In other words you have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.
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Not at all - the DBM system has been designed around some group information being announced during a Raid / 5 man instance. You can even set DBM to pretend to be Bigwigs for guilds that do a ready check for that Add-On as a requirement of a raid.
Allow a direct user input to create a response from your installed add-on means that a remote player - via the Blizzard Server - is interrogating information held on your hard drive - and that’s sloppy code.
You have no idea how it works if this is what you are saying lmao.
Jesus man, it’s not like DBM is able to scan other people’s harddrives at all.
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Add-Ons run independently of the WoW Game Shell- they are processes that are being run as separate programmes with their own resource.
So either the command is being allowed to tunnel OR the programme is putting out information not necessary for the game to operate - and that’s very naughty of it because it creates vulnerability within the code.
I do fully understand the subject - I probably just use very annoying simplifications - but the software should not require a user to lock it down.
Looking at all of the functionality set as default within DBM it does store and share a lot of information with other users using the Add-On unless you tell it not to.
It is the cautionary tale that Blizzard do not support any third party add-on and these add-ons are created by fans - they are not commercial enterprises who would have a commercial imperative not to leave your system open to abuse through weak code
No, you do not.
The addon isn’t scanning other people’s drives, it’s simply putting out a message saying “If you are running DBM, please respond” and other DBM’s are coded by default to go “I am DBM Version 1.2.3” in response.
It’s simply invisible text channels communicating between the addons.
Nothing more.
I say again, you’ve 0 clue.
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You know how often people make that argument, they say its in a sandbox that can only run Lua commands, its safe it its from curse etc.
And then you take a stroll through the WoW archive of issues caused by add-ons.
Blizzard don’t support add-ons for a reason
As recently at 2021 an AH Add-on had a hidden bat file restarting the game system every time it was loaded to bypass Lua
Blizzard itself was hacked in 2019
Please don’t suggest that add-ons are harmless game extensions which can’t cause issues because they can and do. Mostly unintentional but occasionally malicious.
I never said that.
You claim I did, but I did not.
I know addons can cause harm, but I’ve only ever seen that in the sense of malicious WeakAura’s set up to auto-mail gold or outdated/bad addons causing unplayable FPS drops.
Again, DBM cannot and has never been able to scan other players(or your own) harddisks like you claim.
Good thing all good addons are open source and if you install an addon with a bat file its your own fault.
is it - the most infamous hack of WoW was a clone site pretending to be Curse - and of course Blizz got hacked for the login details of around 14 million users in 2010
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