Minecraft mods let you disable Mojang's controversial chat reporting

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Minecraft: Java Edition's latest update introduced a new player reporting tool, which allows players to submit "inappropriate chat messages or dangerous behaviour" for moderators to review. That seems like a good thing on the its face, but many Minecraft players aren't happy that it extends to private servers.

Naturally, because this is Minecraft, players have changed what they don't like. There are now mods which strip messages of information tieing them to your player profile.

There are a handful of mods that seem to do it successfully. No Chat Reports by Aizistral apparently "strips cryptographic signatures" which associate the messages you send with your Minecraft account, and it supports the Forge and Fabric modding APIs. NoEnryption by Doclic does the same thing for Minecraft Spigot server software, and No Chat Reports by TechnicallyCoded, also for Spigot, says it's "currently the only plugin which is able to fully replicate the vanilla behaviour" and supports multiple languages.

These mods are, of course, used at your own risk. They work both client and server-side, but if you install them client-side, other people's servers can exclude you from joining if they choose to enforce secure profiles. Which is fair enough, and means you shouldn't be able to use these mods to go trolling people who want the protections moderation can provide.

While it seems reasonable that Mojang moderate their game's community, it's also understandable that players are nervous about private spaces being subject to that moderation. Moderation teams aren't infallible and players are concerned about being banned from their own servers for comments taken out of context. Even if moderation was infallible, I also don't think it's