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Today I recieved a Favorite point notification (see below)
It was  aFP from a Anonymous grocacher !! How is that possible ??

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Hi oz9els, we have detected changes in favorite points for 1 of your geocaches. 0 FP was removed and 0 FP was added (±0 FP). Plus another 1 FP were added by anonymous Geocachers.

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Traditional Cache GC3VH3G - SideTracked - Copenhagen Central station (KBH)

Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain: 1.5 Size: Micro

+1 FP
AddedRemoved

Anonymous Geocachers also caused an additional increase by 1 FP

in Miscellaneous by oz9els (1.8k points)

1 Answer

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Best answer
On geocaching.com there is a setting with which geocachers can prohibit third-party applications from accessing their information. This makes all API-using partner apps useless for that cacher and also prohibits other cacher from looking at their information via such apps. This means that Project-GC can't access their information, so they appear as "Anonymous Geocacher" (since we can still see that someone awarded an FP).
by pinkunicorn (Moderator) (197k points)
selected by oz9els
OK, that make sense - THANKS
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