Spy.pet is harvesting your Discord history with no ability to opt-out
Spy.pet is harvesting your Discord history with no ability to opt-out
The service offers the ability to purchase credits through cryptocurrencies, as well as offers the data for AI training purposes.
The service offers the ability to purchase credits through cryptocurrencies, as well as offers the data for AI training purposes.
Excited to see Discord do absolutely nothing about this despite it being an egregious breach of their TOS.
Discord‘s TOS only really applies when they feel like it.
When someone uses 3rd party client or creates a server for Nintendo emulator
Just like twitch
...and when they don't pay Discord under the table. Discord wouldn't be unique if this was the case either.
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.coolwas the last well-known entry but there's been more.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.
Is matrix.org a viable alternative as of now or the near future?
I am still on it because of a small circle of friends.
From the article, the data collection hinges on a bot going into a public server then scraping the history. Still a problem that Discord should act on, but it looks like there is no need to worry about private servers.
Does anyone know what kind of naming pattern or bot identification methods we could use? I belong to a small public server that’s there to serve a public need.
You could probably have a verification system thing that I've seen some public servers have where you have to complete some action before getting access to the actual channels.
This.. this is nothing. Oh no, my messages on public servers are being scraped! Good thing I haven't said anything in a public server I didn't fully intend on being there forever.
The Discord haters will feast on anything. Granted, this should still be shutdown as a TOS violation but acting like this is a profound intrusion on privacy? Get ahold of yourselves. This is no different from Tweets being scraped or Facebook wall posts. Don't add the bot to servers you don't want it on and it's a nonissue.
If they could somehow make this data available to search engines. Maybe we can start being able to google random problems and actually find solutions again.
Search engines would have to function but yeah that would be nice.
What kind of foolish optimist are you? Search engines are to make profit, not help you find that obscure answer to your urgent question
This is assuming the bots are allowed (or, at least not prevented in coming) in by the server admin and the bot is not obfuscated some how. If the bots are taking advantage of an expolit, or not being up front, then we have trouble.
the content being scraped is from users, they do not control what bots are added to servers.
It's much more like the Cambridge Analytics scandal in that users posted content that was shared with friends but not explicitly shared publicly, but those friends then granted a third party access to all of the data.
it redirects to a video of the infamous Jonah Jameson’s “Are you serious?” scene from Spider-Man
No, it hosts the video. DMCA!!1!!1!!!
Edit: Italicized "hosts". Wish we could use the <em> tag.
You have to pay for it.....
Deleted discord recently because of the ads. Glad I did as iv been looking for reason to delete it for a while.
Time to switch to alternative open source ones: Revolt, Matrix, Spacebar...
Revolt looks and functions the most like Discord.
I don't have a Discord history, so that's one problem taken care of.
Just never talk in a public server and it still won't.
I love pets
Another reason not to use Discord.
You should learn about how message federation works on Lemmy