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Discord Users Are Being Tracked Through Data-Scraping Site (www.theregister.com)
submitted 7 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Internet-scraping outfit Spy.pet claims to have harvested more than four billion public messages made by nearly 620 million users on more than 14,000 Discord chat servers – and is selling access to this trove.

The website presents the data it's collected in several ways. Each known user has a profile, which contains all known aliases, pronouns, connected accounts to other platforms such as Steam and GitHub, Discord servers joined, and public messages. If you wanted to quite literally spy on a Discord user or users, Spy.pet lets you do that, for a fee.

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 63 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Hmm they could have used that for good and solved Discords inherent un-searchability and un-archivability (Like old school forums used to have)

But no, they choose evil instead :(

[–] warm@kbin.earth 25 points 7 months ago

Forums need to come back, I die a little inside whenever I see a Discord server linked for support. Ugh.

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

Yea no clue why the fuck people jumped to discord over Lemmy or old school forums. It's a shit medium for that style of postings.

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago

Not enuf money in being good, being evil pays