ok, here’s the thing that has been bugging me for quite a while. I apologize in advance for making this thread if it is in any way irrelevant or somehow stupid.
(or if there was already a thread like this... thought i didn't see one)
we all know (or should know) that block checkers do not work… for the reasons
stated here
but would I be correct in saying that it is possible to detect if a person blocked you if you have an open conversation window notifier?
I am asking this since open conversation window notifiers (such as wouter’s openconvo) or messengerdiscovery
can detect blocking, when the person who blocked you opens a conversation window with you.
I tested this thoroughly and although I admit that it is a rather limited way of detecting blocking… it still works. -> the “only” limitation is obvious -> the conversation window needs to be open in order to detect blocking.
I mainly tested wouter’s
openconvo for this, but I think
messengerdiscovery uses the same method of detection.
(also.. for some reason this method of detection did not work well for me with msn 7.0.0777, but did for msn 6.2 up to (.632) does now again with the newest version of msn
i'm not sure why that is though)
so where does all this fit in with block checking? can we or I, tell a person who asks that “block checking” is possible? or no?
also, another question. I not even once got a false “open conversation” notification (if the person who opened my conversation window, simply signed in offline or changed their status to offline, and didn’t block me). so WHY is it possible at all to detect if a person opened your convo window, if they blocked you?
I’m just wondering how this works.
Edit: i added the links to wouter's openconvo notifier.. and messengerdiscovery:
openconvo
messengerdiscovery
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