Spy.pet is harvesting your Discord history with no ability to opt-out - Stack Diary
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Discord is one of the few instant messaging platforms that makes it easy to forget that your chat history is recorded. Every chat message you send in a public channel can be accessed by anyone, regardless of the timeline. As a Discord user, I tend to forget that this option exists, especially when it comes to searching for individual users'

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  • SoupBrick@yiffit.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      “private” = small ‘servers’ that aren’t in the public index (I think you have to have like 500 people to be eligible or something), or…?