CharPrivacy

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This project is abandoned and its default file will likely not work with the most recent version of World of Warcraft. Whether this project is out of date or its author has marked it as abandoned, this project is no longer maintained.

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Update:
Important Note:
The current Blizzard implementation has a critical design error: The "Display Only Character Achievements to Others" options does not include the pets and mounts section, which means that it's possible to create an unique account-fingerprint with this 2 datasets! This means also that this addon is useless because of this Blizzard bug. This also means that you can do nothing to avoid an account-fingerprint and so everybody can see all characters from an account (level 10+).
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With Mists of Pandaria it's possible to get all characters from an account
via 'data-mining' the armory using the 'Community Platform API'.
This is possible by matching account-wide achievements (which can produce
a unique account-fingerprint) between different character-datasets.
Prior Mists of Pandaria this was NOT possible!

Blizzard added an option to disable such 'data-mining'-actions, BUT this
option is DISABLED by DEFAULT.
You need to ENABLE "Display Only Character Achievements to Others" with
each character (Interface -> Game -> Display).

This addon simply checks if you have enabled this option. If this option
is disabled this addon automatically enables it and shows a message in
chat.

Blizzard MUST ENABLE this option by DEFAULT, or better:
change logic, change text and make a real OPT-IN feature.

Forum:
http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=20135

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