You’re answering your own question Flan.
You’re right, that is a totally reasonable concern, and that’s why I’ll be inspecting the changes to addons before updating them, and recommending others do the same.
The whole issue is solved by erring on the side of caution; if a prospective user isn’t capable of fully understanding or evaluating a mod to make their own judgement on whether it violates the rules, they shouldn’t be using the mod at all.
The mod manager was written to consolidate and simplify the install and update process. The massive influx of clueless people jumping in and using things without understanding them is an unfortunate but inevitable side effect.
IMC not even banning people with add-ons. People are getting banned because Steam cracking down players abusing chargeback fraud.
So I’m not crazy to have these concerns. But when you have an overwhelming number of people cluelessly installing these add-ons, for the sake of the game’s future, it’s best to try to do SOMETHING to control it.
I’ve recently started looking over the add-on code as well. If we can find just one example of why there may be a security issue to people, it will hopefully calm down the large influx of clueless people installing any add-on that sounds “nice”. I’m really just concerned over this more than anything.
Exactly. If your worried about getting banned for using addons… dont use addons for now untill things settle down.
so now you know
Here is a rehash of this discussion from 2 years ago.
http://forums.archeagegame.com/showthread.php?29773-Scapes-Addons-YES-or-NO&highlight=addons
Here is a rehash of the AFK farm discussion and the vague/gray answers you will get from devs
https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Please-a-clear-statement-re-AFK-farming/first
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Because I wasn’t trying to be an idiot when I posted this. I had a real legitimate concern here that was lost in translation. It might have been my fault for poor word choices or maybe I was just being overly paranoid. Oh well.
Yea, the fear mongering is real. I’ve been looking through the forums and no one has posted a legit source or picture that IMC is banning people specifically for using add-ons. All I’ve seen is people speculating that they got banned for using add-ons and attach a screenshot of a VAC ban notice. VAC ban = Steam ban. Steam ban =/= IMC ban.
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Right. but that “addon” was actually an exploit that the auther labeled as an “Addon”. your other addons are fine.
people should just verify that an addon is legit before using
Up until recently, a number of players were proven to be making use of addons to modify the game client and allow access to Market, Repair, Personal Storage and Team Storage UIs outside of cities without interacting with their corresponding NPC
well gg to those people. that is straight up hacking. being able to access all that in the field is a broken advantage
people should just verify that an addon is legit before using
This ^
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Be careful with your terminology there. cxAnywhere was an addon, just like EXP Viewer is an addon. The difference is in the behavior of the addon itself.
good point. it was a bit confusing.
I should have said that the Behavior of the addon was an exploit of the game and breach of the Terms of Service
And be sure that the add-on you are installing is ONLY doing what it’s advertised to do 
i agree anybody who ever used addons should be perma banned
You are agreeing with something no one here has said? Lol
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