[Feature Request] Hidden Profile 2.0
I want to make a suggestion to improve and also add limitations to this function.
First of all, this is something mostly used by all spoofers, to prevent to be spoted easier, so actually I find it better if it was removed enterily. But that's probably never be accepted.
My suggestions are to limit it as following:
- only agents lv8+ are able to hide their profile (or other level, but nothing so low);
- agents with hidden profiles also lose the ability to see others agent's profiles as well;
- that could only be changed a limited ammount of times in a set period, like once a month;
The first is so the community can have observe better a newcommer, help him with the actions he is lacking skills and see what he's up to, since there is a lot of new players that already start at lv1 with hidden status and level up pretty fast, ans seeing the status we can confirm his honesty sometimes. Also, since it is a begginer, there's literally nothing to hide, unless it's a cheater.
The second is really simple, if the people want to hide his profile, it should also lose the ability to see other's too. Even thou agents with public profile have nothing to hide, it's just a fair and square game. "Want your back hide? So won't see mine too." The last one is just to prevent a quick change of the settings just to a quick look and went hide again. "Want to see mine? Show yours too".
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I'm on the other side of the room when it comes to profile privacy since it is a right for each individual, but I find all this suggestions very good, specially the second one.
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I want a badge that ticks up every time someone on the opposite team looks at my profile.
There's no reason to have the hidden profile feature anymore. It was there to help people from being tracked with their GPs. Since GPs aren't a thing anymore neither should hidden profiles.
Never hidden my profile in my 7 years of Ingress, got many GPs and was hunted too.
I honestly do not know why this feature was introduced. I never used it. However, I still know many players who bring arguments like: "Anyone can track me..." or "With my stats you can see my playing style and my region and what I'm doing at the moment..." or (mostly in Germany) "Blah blah...privacy...blah blah...GDPR...".
The arguments probably originate mostly from old players and often transfer to new ones. I am afraid that these players will not bring any innovations.
Nevertheless, I like the second and third point. A rule only for L8 to identify bots is not understandable. Here in the region most bots are on the way with open profile and disappear after reaching L6.