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Originally posted by Sweetkitty
"Being spied on" 
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Originally posted by benjyrama
I think it was the word ~"spying" that triggered the hacker thingy
I really don't understand all the commotion. It clearly says "For those who don't want to be spied on by those who appear offline or who blocked you.". This clearly indicated it is a script that will give you more privacy? It does not say it will take away privacy from others? Let me know if there is something I can do to make that description clearer.
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Originally posted by Kotjze
What if everyone used this? Then what if you changed status to Appear Offline, everyone on your list would go offline x.x And that would defeat the purpose of Appearing Offline
Obviously people who install this script simply don't want their contact to appear offline and they don't want to receive offline messages. People should consider if they want a script or not, they shouldn't just download everything without reading what it does.
Should everybody really install this script, then maybe it's time for Microsoft to ask themselves if appear offline / offline messages are really needed and what they could improve about it.
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Originally posted by alexp2_ad
this script pisses me off, it means appear offline is useless
Just when you have one of the 0.0001% of Messenger users on your contactlist that uses this script. And obviously if you have such a user on your list you would piss him off by sending an offline message anyway.
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Originally posted by alexp2_ad
You go offline with some contacts blocked, they come online and send you an offline message, you won't get it. Because they were blocked.
The purpose of this script is to block offline messages, so I don't see a problem there. It's up to the people who install the script.
And I'm not really sure how offline messaging works, but shouldn't you still get that offline message as soon as you unblock the user again? And if the offline message really doesn't get sent, doesn't the sender get notified about this? If not, then I suggest MS takes another look at their offline messages implementation and make it more reliable.
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