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Would you like to be tracked? (Semi Offical Announcement)
ryanteck:
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--- Quote from: Lynxy on February 03, 2012, 11:41:07 PM ---Vanilla Minecraft servers return a full lit of online players, no mods needed. I would say anyone that plays the game is already opt-ed in; if they don't like it, complain to Mojang.
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Unfortunately unless the server uses RCON/Query, it's nearly impossible to track users easily. The 0xFE packet that the server sends to clients' server lists only generates a player count, not a list of players. Although, nothing is stopping going further and getting the 0xC9 packet from a server, it just takes a lot more work since you have to login to the server first which involves getting a token from minecraft.net which also means passing a username/password verification.
I'm just not sure which one is harder to do in terms of quick implementations. If ryanteck is interested, I can hand over my PHP document that shows player count and server description, but it's not much of use to him I'm sure.
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I already do use an packet that allows me to grab an list of users via the built in query system. I might soon implement the system which would get the number online as an last resort up time check. Although i'm not sure.
TheJudged:
How would we exactly be tracked? Stalked? Cookies?
ryanteck:
Using the servers tracked on mc-serverlist.co.uk I log what usernames I receive by the query packet / minequery and then add these to the database.
Thats it.
Nosliw:
I'm not an expert on law, but have you checked that monitoring where people go and do on the internet is legal? Don't want you to get in any trouble xD
TheJudged:
Oh....
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