Research on offline options

[sirinsidiator]

ZOS has repeatedly stated in the past that they do not want addons to exchange data from within the game in real time. Main reasons being that they don't want gameplay to be overly trivialized by addons (e.g. coordination in Cyrodiil via an addon that sends the player positions of each participating group somewhere) and also to protect player privacy (e.g. uploading dps of each group member to some sort of ranking site and then autokick anyone who's below x).
Of course that doesn't mean those examples are completely impossible, but it's a lot harder to do and there are other more nefarious things that addons could achieve with real time data exchange, which I'll leave up to your imagination.

[Baertram]

Originally Posted by sirinsidiator ZOS has repeatedly stated in the past that they do not want addons to exchange data from within the game in real time. Main reasons being that they don't want gameplay to be overly trivialized by addons (e.g. coordination in Cyrodiil via an addon that sends the player positions of each participating group somewhere) and also to protect player privacy (e.g. uploading dps of each group member to some sort of ranking site and then autokick anyone who's below x). Of course that doesn't mean those examples are completely impossible, but it's a lot harder to do and there are other more nefarious things that addons could achieve with real time data exchange, which I'll leave up to your imagination.

That information given I would like to attach:
ZOs already nerfed some APIs after data sharing was used in a way they did not like (and many players neither liked).
So if you find ways they probably will get stripped, if used for the "wrong idea" (or maybe if used for a nice roleplaying idea but culd be abused for something else as well).

[YesImBattman]

Old thread, I know. But I too would like some clarification in this area.

ESO-Database.com uses their client to collect data and post it to their website. Its actually a pretty nice platform from what I can see.
How is this collection of data any different from what is being questioned here?