Jabber Pseudo Invisibility

Jabber Pseudo Invisibility is a lightweight extension for Pidgin and has the role of adding a Pseudo Invisible status to all Jabber / XMPP accounts. What this means is that you may appear offline for all and groups in your list, except for the one that comes with the Best Friends label and privileges.

When you change your status to pseudo invisible, the plugin sends a presence unavailable to all buddies not in Best Friends group and every time one of them sends you a presence stanza, the plugin replies with a presence unavailable so that everyone excluded from the Best Friends group continues to view you as offline.

The idea behind the extension is that you can create an exclusive list of users that you would like to send and receive messages from. Depending on your needs and preferences, you can always move users to the Best Friends group so that they receive your real status and can communicate with you on a timely manner.

From a broad perspective, you can say that you can enhance your privacy, particularly if you are working in a large corporate environment and you have dozens of users on the list. Not to mention that it can be a means to avoid being disturbed when you need to meet certain deadlines.