quote:
Originally posted by KeyStorm
...let's say I open a convo with you, and I don't have MP! installed: nothing will be sent along with my name. So it's rather useless that you send the information I won't parse in any way.
No it isn't, you could've installed plus! but disabled the "show I use plus!". So you will know I have Plus!, but I wouldn't know you have it. (that is without the sunglasses-theory)
quote:
Originally posted by KeyStorm
I understand it's simple formality, but that would decrease load in bot servers, for example.
I wouldn't worry about serverload, it would be only a few bytes more with each convo, so...
But to implement this like we would see isn't a privacy breach, but it is indeed illegal use of the protocol, so...