Just found out about these pinside achievements and I don't want my activity tracked like that or at the very least want to hide it from anyone else.
How can I do that?
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Quoted from PoMC:I don't want my activity tracked like that or at the very least want to hide it from anyone else.
Rick, the best option is browse Pinside using a newly opened private window in your browser. You'll lose all of the benefits associated with having an account but your activity generally won't be associated with you.
You might want to look through your settings again and hide other stuff too.
POMCactivity-forum (resized).pngTrying to hide these:
PINSIDE ACHIEVEMENTS
Pinside Achievements are awards for completing various challenges or actions on Pinside. Each achievement earns a certain number points, accumulating into a Pinsiders Achievement Points Score.
I don't think you can hide those. The only privacy settings are Personal, Location, Collection, Ratings, Score, and Activity.
Woolgoolga
Funny how? Just wanted to know if those could be hidden since a lot of other privacy settings are available. I personally want to opt out of these dumb achievements or have them hidden so only I can see them.
Quoted from PoMC:Just found out about these pinside achievements and I don't want my activity tracked like that or at the very least want to hide it from anyone else.
How can I do that?
You’ve been here 9 years and never noticed? They’ve been there since 2015 in the stats under your name. The trophy with the number value.
Quoted from PoMC:Funny how? Just wanted to know if those could be hidden since a lot of other privacy settings are available. I personally want to opt out of these dumb achievements or have them hidden so only I can see them.
Why? They don’t tell someone anything that your profile doesn’t already said.
Even if you hide everything, your post counts have to be visible because you are using a website and you are posting with other pinsiders. Most of that info has to be there.
It isn’t a privacy issues because it’s all public data. Kinda like your legal name and address are not considered private information because for you to interact with the world it must be used. Anyone can go to town hall and find out your name and address and the taxes you pay in the public record, lol
Quoted from PoMC:Those aren't the details I'm talking about. I'm talking about achievements trophies.
It might help if you would give a specific example, of an achievement trophy that a) discloses some information that could be misused against you, and b) that discloses some information that a person could not generate for themselves from scratch simply by scraping the web site.
I think it's reasonable to be open-minded about part a), since you may perceive "harm" differently from the way others might, but b) is a technical issue, and is inherent in any participation on any web site that the features being tracked by these "achievement trophies". If there is in fact a means to do harm, and there is sufficient motivation to a bad actor to do that harm, removing access to the trophies isn't going to get in their way. They would just get the same information by other means.
It's possible I've overlooked something, hence my suggestion that you be more specific about what harm it is you're trying to avoid, and why you believe that blocking the achievement trophies will achieve that goal.
Quoted from PoMC:Just found out about these pinside achievements and I don't want my activity tracked like that or at the very least want to hide it from anyone else.
How can I do that?
Yeah you'd think it should be another check box in the privacy settings like location & collection etc
Quoted from Haymaker:Any guesses on what benign feature people will ask for removal for next?
I mean they already have the ability to hide Personal, location, collection, ratings, scores, & activity so I don't really see achievements as something "weirder" than those.
Quoted from Haymaker:Any guesses on what benign feature people will ask for removal for next?
Can't remember the last one, can you remind?
Remember it got funny to though.
Quoted from TheLaw:I mean they already have the ability to hide Personal, location, collection, ratings, scores, & activity so I don't really see achievements as something "weirder" than those.
And other peoples posts.
Maybe if they had the ability to hide their own posts from everyone else that would suffice?
Quoted from punkin:Can't remember the last one, can you remind?
Remember it got funny to though.
The Top 100 maybe?
Quoted from punkin:And other peoples posts.
Maybe if they had the ability to hide their own posts from everyone else that would suffice?
Hey I'm with ya, but this is a hobby that made JJP add a feature to disable the game camera so nothing seems to out of bounds.
Quoted from SNES:The Top 100 maybe?
Yep, that was it, classic.
Quoted from punkin:Can't remember the last one, can you remind?
Remember it got funny to though.
Quoted from SNES:The Top 100 maybe?
Yeah it was the hide the top 100 post
When I posted this, I didn’t realize it was a public post, thought it might only visible to whoever runs the website stuff.
Don’t know why anyone else would give a shit one way or the other with me asking if an option to hide something is available or can be made available? You wouldn’t be forced to flip the switch if it was made available, so settle down you couple of nitwits who are thumbs downing a question. Derp.
Quoted from PoMC:When I posted this, I didn’t realize it was a public post, thought it might only visible to whoever runs the website stuff.
Don’t know why anyone else would give a shit one way or the other with me asking if an option to hide something is available or can be made available? You wouldn’t be forced to flip the switch if it was made available, so settle down you couple of nitwits who are thumbs downing a question. Derp.
Not me, i'm a different type of nitwit. No downvoting here.
I told you he'd want to hide his own posts.
Quoted from PoMC:When I posted this, I didn’t realize it was a public post, thought it might only visible to whoever runs the website stuff.
Don’t know why anyone else would give a shit one way or the other with me asking if an option to hide something is available or can be made available? You wouldn’t be forced to flip the switch if it was made available, so settle down you couple of nitwits who are thumbs downing a question. Derp.
It's the Internet. We wind up giving a shit about some of the stupidest things. But, since you feel it necessary to call people names, I'm more than happy to join the nitwit club with the rest of them.
Quoted from Paddy-o:Wasn't going to comment until I realized I could be a part of the nitwit club! Woohoo!!!
I think you have to downvote a post to get in.
Who cares? Seems like you’ve been living with these achievement settings for years and didn’t even notice, so what’s the rub?
Quoted from ticktockman:Who cares? Seems like you’ve been living with these achievement settings for years and didn’t even notice, so what’s the rub?
You cared enough to reply. 
I just saw the "feature" today and didn't find where I could turn it off. So, I asked.
Go join the Nitwit club. 
Just do everything you can to get every achievement. Any snoops will be overwhelmed with so much data they won't know how to glean anything useful from it.
Quoted from Haymaker:Any guesses on what benign feature people will ask for removal for next?
I've ignored everyone but Levi...it's like I've created my own mega feature!
Quoted from punkin:I think you have to downvote a post to get in.
Where do I find the nitwit club? Maybe I have to UNhide it first?
I always wonder what achievements are obtainable and what I need to do still to get more. Is there a list of all? Not the ones you have but EVERYTHING.
Or what the rules are to get an achievement?
Quoted from PoMC:You cared enough to reply.
I just saw the "feature" today and didn't find where I could turn it off. So, I asked.
Go join the Nitwit club.
Cut it out!
You can get into nitwit without a downvote?
Where's my tick?
Quoted from mrm_4:I always wonder what achievements are obtainable and what I need to do still to get more. Is there a list of all? Not the ones you have but EVERYTHING.
Or what the rules are to get an achievement?
I know there’s an achievement for browsing the site while sitting on the toilet for seven days in a row. Maybe start with that one.
Quoted from Wmsfan:Anyone else feel the need to look at the OPs achievements? I never look at them, until this thread
I respect the work Robin has put into this site so much. But I've never actually looked at someone's achievements until now. I pulled them up to remember what they're for. And then closed it and I've already forgotten the specifics.
Just my personal opinion, but what you post here is much more revealing than some stats. They're cute, but kinda meaningless really.
Quoted from radium:I know there’s an achievement for browsing the site while sitting on the toilet for seven days in a row. Maybe start with that one.
Nose snort. 
Funny, how almost 24 hours can go by without an answer to the question about a website feature. [Comment Removed]
Quoted from beelzeboob:On a related note, is there a way to hide downvotes? Asking for a friend from West Virginia.
Yes:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/settings
Quoted from PoMC:Funny, how almost 24 hours can go by without an answer to the question about a website feature.
It seemed like the question had already been answered. Whether or not a new feature is added is up to robin
Quoted from PoMC:Just found out about these pinside achievements and I don't want my activity tracked like that or at the very least want to hide it from anyone else.
How can I do that?Funny, how almost 24 hours can go by without an answer to the question about a website feature. [Comment Removed]
You cant configure it. Achievements are for fun but not for tracking activity per se'. Pinside "Pulse" and "Forum Activity" is kind of for that. Pulse can be turned off but Forum Activity cant.
Quoted from PoMC:When I posted this, I didn’t realize it was a public post, thought it might only visible to whoever runs the website stuff.
Don’t know why anyone else would give a shit one way or the other with me asking if an option to hide something is available or can be made available? You wouldn’t be forced to flip the switch if it was made available, so settle down you couple of nitwits who are thumbs downing a question. Derp.
I don't give a shit, I just think its weird and funny. If you want them off for whatever strange reasoning though is up to you, I'm simply just baffled on why they would bother you and normally I'm the type of guy who hates anything that tracks me too. Regardless, its not something I'd hold against you. I do look at my achievements from time to time, but I've never cared or looked at somebody elses, personally.
Quoted from PoMC:Funny, how almost 24 hours can go by without an answer to the question about a website feature. [Comment Removed]
Quoted from Haymaker:I don't give a shit, I just think its weird and funny. If you want them off for whatever strange reasoning though is up to you, I'm simply just baffled on why they would bother you and normally I'm the type of guy who hates anything that tracks me too. Regardless, its not something I'd hold against you. I do look at my achievements from time to time, but I've never cared or looked at somebody elses, personally.
Simply put, I think they are lame and don't want to participate. No big deal obviously if they cannot be disabled, which I why I asked the question (seemingly thinking someone who runs the site would actually answer or maybe a mod could've flagged Robin that there was a question posed)
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