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Spy.pet is harvesting your Discord history with no ability to opt-out (stackdiary.com)

submitted 7 months ago by skilledtothegills@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The service offers the ability to purchase credits through cryptocurrencies, as well as offers the data for AI training purposes.

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[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 173 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Excited to see Discord do absolutely nothing about this despite it being an egregious breach of their TOS.

[–] Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 99 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Discord‘s TOS only really applies when they feel like it.

[–] starman@programming.dev 46 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

When someone uses 3rd party client or creates a server for Nintendo emulator

[–] dopeshark@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

Just like twitch

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

...and when they don't pay Discord under the table. Discord wouldn't be unique if this was the case either.

[–] chameleon@kbin.social 18 points 7 months ago

I think they'll give it a genuine shot. These stalking services pop up like weeds and every time it gets some media attention they end up with significant problems not much later. dis.cool was the last well-known entry but there's been more.

[–] rar@discuss.online 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Can't wait for it to die and wither out. But I know they will retain a big pool of users on hostage like reddit or fb for a while.

[–] dopeshark@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Is matrix.org a viable alternative as of now or the near future?

[–] ShadowCat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

personally I think revolt is a better alternative.

[–] OmgItBurns@discuss.online 3 points 7 months ago

Matrix is great, if only I could convince my friends to use it.

[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

If it has the same issues Lemmy does, probably not. People don't want to build an account on a server only to find out, three months later, it's run by tankies, or anti-piracy watchdogs, or any other number of unsavory things.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I am still on it because of a small circle of friends.