Statshark (the website) works by polling the public leaderboards for user names and user IDs. It then pulls the service records of all the active players it has a list of, via direct data requests. Replays aren’t used by Statshark.
So removing your name from leaderboards could (assuming Statshark drops players who have disappeared from their list of actives as a result and doesn’t keep checking them anyway) possibly make the data Statshark had on you until now become increasingly stale over time. For the Gaijin control to prevent anything here for sure they would have to delete their own player data on you from their servers or otherwise make it immune to those third-party data calls.
Also, removing your presence from leaderboards and anonymizing your name in game (Player1) are separate controls. You’re thinking of the second one (“Display real nick…” at the top of Necronomica’s screenshot). Anonymizing your in-game name should defeat the Live Game Viewer being used to bring up your ability scores.
As outlined above, the dev says that the app takes a screenshot of your display when you’re looking at the in game scoreboard and sends it to their own servers for real-time AI-driven Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to give them player names they can then check against their database for both sides.
They say this has no interaction with in-game processes and isn’t sending commands to the app, suggesting the app is basically doing the equivalent of a “print screen” command when it detects the player hitting their tab key. It’s not clear if that’s just the focussed window or the entire screen, if there’s any difference between the two. It’s also not clear what they do with the screenshots on their servers after. Anyone who’s ever hit print screen when they have a dual screen running or are running in windowed mode will have noticed you can sometimes unintentionally capture other program windows you had up in that screenshot. So the possibility of inadvertent data capture here is not zero. We also don’t know which public AI tool they might be sharing those screenshots with. Might be entirely on-prem OCR, dunno.
People who lie through their teeth will get called out regardless, you don’t need to check someone stats to prove they are wrong. Anyone who claims the BMPT is fine, for example, is blatantly lying and/or doing it for their own benefit. You don’t need to see that their stats to prove that.
To me, sites like those only foster toxicity and gatekeeping, and the idea that some third party is just quietly compiling all this data in the background feels creepy.
except case of BMPT is extremely unique because almost everyone across all nations agrees its OP PoS.
What about all the other cases where the situation isnt so cut and dry?
Stats are that - stats. They can be used as evidence in argument.
if person has problem with their argument provoking scrutiny of how well they understand the game in the first place, theres simple fix for that - simply not coming forth with opinion that would require scrutiny of how well said person understands game.
either way, even youtube is enough. Third party already keeps track of your data and then sells it for profit. And said data is much more important than your ingame stats.
Dude these kinda tools have been around forever in every multiplayer game lol. Players create toxicity, not tools. Complaining about this and muh racism is such a cringe euro thing to do
Technically we don’t actually know if they’re using Gemini to do an off-prem OCR on the screenshots they’re sending back from their app on your computer to their servers, so this COULD BE a Google product. :)
(I don’t think it is, just pointing out normally an app pushing screenshots out of your computer shares who they’re sharing them with, how long they’re stored for, etc.)
I wanted to merely point out that much more important data than in-game stats is already being tracked and as such I find ItsOnyys “privacy” concerns misplaced.
If he was truly worried about his privacy this much I doubt he would be here with us on the forum in the first place.
Its among the things europeans are actually based.
I don’t want my data to be manipulated and displayed by a team of alleged racist and in-game cheating dudes, end of story.
I only use my phone for calls and messaging, I have no major social media presence besides discord. I am coming from a privacy standpoint when it comes to this topic. I don’t like the idea of my stats being tracked and served to the public without any consent.
I would say that global and anonymous stats like nation winrates and individual vehicle performance is fine, I think that’s more than enough to “catch any liars”
And my messages are not being compiled and served in a third party website, are they? I literally only use it to chat with friends and closed servers. Nobody besides discord knows what I say or type there. There are no bots scraping and pulling messages from discord and serving them to the whole world to see.
You are just being dishonest.
Only Gaijin and the user should know what our stats are, not some third party. Just like only Discord should know what goes on in their own service.
What does this mean? Oh, that Discord saves your messages for their own processing and law enforcement purposes? Duh, if I could use another service I would, but Discord is the only one alternative where everyone is.
I dont expect to change your mind. If you dont like that statshark collect and compiles said data, i can understand that, but your concern for privacy is wildy misplaced.
Your ingame stats mean nothing outside the balance discussions on this forum. Thats literally it.
