Homebrew Fbi on Currently Playing in Friendlist

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You can see what titles your friends are playing and they show up as currently playing on the 3ds friends list. My question is, Can Nintendo see this? Can they ban my console because of this?
 

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They can't actually see what you're playing. All it says you're playing is "Unable to get software title." If you're really that concerned, go to the first card that says Friend List, tap Settings, Friend Notification Settings, and turn off Show friends what you're playing.
 

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So They could see that I have fbi open?

Edit: anyway to stop this?
essentially what they see is the private header (hence why some flashcarts got banned) other systems cant see it itll show up as Unable to get software title. as it tries to look for the corresponding smdh but cant find it. but nintendo can definitly see that private header.

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Welp, Hope they don't ban me...
they can and likely will seing as they banned those who played online with an invalid private header and those people have had there 3ds's banned.

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Yeah but I like to use the qr code install. Oh well looks like I'll just have to deal with it :P
however this generally only occurs if playing online with a 3ds game that as an invalid private header
 

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The way it works is nintendo sees a title id that you're playing and sends it to friends. If. The title id isnt on the server, which a few legit apps arent, they dont see the name or icon.
 

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The way it works is nintendo sees a title id that you're playing and sends it to friends. If. The title id isnt on the server, which a few legit apps arent, they dont see the name or icon.
and also im sure nintendo totally has cached list of homebrew titles.
 

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and also im sure nintendo totally has cached list of homebrew titles.
Im not even entirely sure if nintendo can view the title you're playing. It probably just passes through the server and sends the title id to other friend's 3ds', where those 3ds's download the icon of the title id from the server. Ik that's why adding a friend locally shows homebrew apps as favorites while online doesn't.
 
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Im not even entirely sure if nintendo can view the title you're playing. It probably just passes through the server and sends the title id to other friend's 3ds', where those 3ds's download the icon of the title id from the server. Ik that's why adding a friend locally shows homebrew apps as favorites while online doesn't.
they obviously can as theyve cached the gateway 3ds cards so im completely sure they see you using fbi and freeshop. its probably just the fact that theres so much of it or something.
 

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