Streamer mode now hides your login name too
Launcher 0.9.2 closes the hole in streamer mode -- the account picker on Home was still spelling out your login username in plain text, and so was the launch log. Every name the launcher draws is now blurred, and the one control Windows draws for itself shows initials instead.
Launcher 0.9.2 fixes streamer mode, which had been keeping a promise it was only half keeping.
What was wrong
Streamer mode blurred character names and the username on the Accounts tab, and left the thing most worth hiding in plain sight: the account picker on Home showed Display name (yourlogin) in full, and the sentence under the PLAY button named the account again. Anyone watching a stream could read the login half of your credentials off the screen.
What it does now
- Every name the launcher draws is blurred with streamer mode on: account display names, login usernames and character names, on Home, Accounts and Addons. Hover any of them to read it yourself.
- The launch log is masked too. Those lines are console output with the name already inside the sentence (
launching 'Main'…), so the launcher now takes the names out of the text rather than blurring a box around it. That covers anything the game's own loader prints as well. - Toasts and avatars stopped leaking: a failed launch used to announce the account by name in the corner of the screen, and the round avatar was the name's first letter.
- The account picker shows initials. This one is a real trade and worth knowing about: when that list is open, Windows draws it outside the app, so no amount of blurring from our side can touch it. The entries there now read
M•••• (z••••)instead. The closed control still shows the real name, blurred like everything else, so hovering it tells you which account is about to launch.
Streamer mode is in Settings → Privacy, and it is off by default. If you stream, screenshot, or ever share your screen while sorting out a launch problem, it is worth leaving on — nothing about it slows the launcher down.
