Many of you might have noticed the change to the chats in Eve and that they have become less stable. One of the changes was to detail all people in a channel. Now think about that for a second.
As soon as you log in you will show up in a chat channel, people can scroll through the channel to see if you are there and this means by default they know if you are online or not. So if you are under a war dec in hisec or being hunted as you are in a Titan or Super one important thing you must do is remove every single chat channel that a spy can get into easily, especially public ones, because you can be sure that people will be using this.
the watchlist was removed from the game like two years ago… what you’re talking about is the buddy list. That requires both parties to have that box checked.
Just to be clear for others what I am talking about is people intelligently using public chat channels in Eve to see if you are online. And it is damn effective, be very aware of your chat channels.
Hunted a few griefers such as: Panther Eto and Faylee. Now I have to use ALT’s to sit in their chat channels. The funniest lack of OPSEC when hunting Ganktards was Boney Tooth running a live feed whilst in a Gank Fleet.