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June 14, 2005 at 1:14 am #18721DarkoneMember
First of all, if such a topic already exists, I appologize, and mods please delete this. I did a search, but found nothing of the sort so I’m making this thread. I am a “newbie” in these forums, so maybe I still need to work on my searching skills :p.
Now to the topic:
Though this is a very limited way of block detection, some of you may be interested in the fact that block detection in MSN (since the time of the fix in MSN’s protocol bug) is in fact possible.This may come of more interest to people who use the plus! add-on, though I take the liberty of assuming it will be interesting to all. (Just to add, messengerdiscovery, I believe, uses a similar if not the same method for block detection as the plug-in for plus! that I am talking about below.)
The “openconvo notifier” plug-in (which can only be used with plus!) gives you an “open conversation” popup, when the person who blocked you opens a conversation window with you. Like plus! has the option to log different events, so does this plug-in (to log events of opened/closed conversation windows for each contact), so you can just search for the contact you think may have blocked you in the logs, and see if they appeared offline at the time you got a “opened window” notification. Clearly if they appeared offline at the same time the notification was logged, it means you have been blocked.
(There is no possibility of getting “false” notifications -> when the contact simply changes their status to offline or logs in offline. This is due to the fact that the protocol session isn’t opened.)
The limitation of this detection is quite obvious -> nearly everything depends on the contact that blocked you. They need to open the convo window in order for you to receive the notification.
There is, however, a possibility of getting a notification when the client requests your DP -> (this is the reason why open conversation notifiers are not as reliable, since they can give you false notifications) but in the case of block detection it can work to an advantage. SO for best results, it is best that you have a display picture.
A thread I have made in the plus! forums carries the initial conversation about this topic.
Here is a link if you are interested.I am sorry if this post is a bit confusing, or if any of you found it useless. Nonetheless, I believe that it is interesting information, and I wanted to share it with all. 🙂
June 14, 2005 at 1:12 pm #124246sciencefeelingMembermmm…ok, so, from what I read, it is possilbe that you are right…I tryed to test it, but didn´t get many conclusions out of it, nobody is online in my timezone, hehehe The thing is…if someone blocked you…why would they open a conversation with you, or view your contact card or anything?…I mean, it could work, but you have to count on them being curious about you…and they might not be if they blocked you.
I will keep testing…
How is this different from the method of sending a faked link and wait see if they click on it?EDIT: I tried it further and it very much works as a blockchecker if they happen to open your window, for who knows what reason. I guess, if you say your DP shows you naked, it might work, lol.
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