Discord is spyware

by beAsty • 10 Aug 2019, 08:05 • Journals
I just saw a discussion on the Archlinux sub of reddit about discord. It was mentioned that discord is a heavy spyware tool and this link was provided:
https://old.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/95r6oa/you_should_know_discord_is_spyware_and_logs_and/

Thought I would post this here since crossfire seems to have a big discord channel?

Why not switching to smth else like good old IRC or maybe Telegram?
Telegram group: https://t.me/CrossfireET
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adetonian 10 Aug 2019, 10:01
w0wy software collecting and selling data in 2019 surprise surprise, stop pretending you can have privacy when using anything remotely social on the internet D:
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Sebhes 10 Aug 2019, 10:43
Even tho I have a similar standpoint regarding the topic, keep in mind it is a very simple one that does not take into account the bigger picture.
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Ronner 19 Aug 2019, 13:20
What bigger picture are you refering to?
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niSmO 10 Aug 2019, 10:34
get over it fam, its great
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Mamalukes 10 Aug 2019, 12:25
IRC is dead
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homiee 10 Aug 2019, 12:35
dat realisation that spyware is now just all company software
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beAsty 10 Aug 2019, 13:36
Hmm I believe there are good alternatives for almost everything.
I also think that there are differences between a heavily spying software that even sometimes cripples your systems performance or a home calling function that is integrated e.g. for improving compatibility.
You could even go with smth like "parabola linux".. a fork of Archlinux.

I would just sandbox discord and not let it access any of my private data but it seems like even that isnt much of a help :o
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niSmO 10 Aug 2019, 17:17
except that nobody uses alternatives, especially when it comes to communication software like discord, because nobody else uses it, so there is nobody to communicate with
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beAsty 10 Aug 2019, 19:21
Reminds me of the first days when I used Telegram... everybody on whatsapp and on one on Telegram.
Now it's nearly the other way around (for me and my friends/family at least).
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niSmO 26 Aug 2019, 20:19
I know literally nobody who uses Telegram, I hadn't heard of it until you mentioned it
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overdrive 10 Aug 2019, 18:41
Do yourself a favour and don't download your google data dump. I did that and found pictures I deleted ages ago and a location file of mysellf going back ten years. Still using google cloud services though, can't live without them.
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beAsty 10 Aug 2019, 19:21
Ye I also use google services.. it is too comfortable to opt out :P
How to download the google dump though, and is there no way to manually delete stuff afterwards?
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Frop 12 Aug 2019, 19:33
Correct, I also downloaded your Google data dump and, quite frankly, I was appalled.
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_Karrde 10 Aug 2019, 23:28
you can call me on my huawei
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seareal 12 Aug 2019, 12:31
XDDDD
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_Karrde 16 Aug 2019, 21:41
Ching chang dong dő :(
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hazz 11 Aug 2019, 08:21
That's some crappy espionage when they declare what they collect in their TOS. "Spyware" is such a loose term these days that you could fit a text editor under it if you tried.

More seriously though, Discord is a small fish when it comes to companies profiting from their users' data. Changing from one messaging app to another won't make a big difference when you're still using devices and operating systems made by the Big Four.
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schNee 12 Aug 2019, 10:54
everyone who is active at the internet, should be aware of his own data. imo its so much more than discord, what is bad for u
and imo we needed a good platform to get the people together. will be hard to move over 1k people to telegram :D
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ScaTmaN 12 Aug 2019, 18:34
like everyone is on social media, so who cares about discord lol
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