• Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    So the basics of what I’ve read is:

    • Discord stores all messages and media. If you delete it, or delete your account, its still there.
    • Discord does not SELL that data. Instead, they hand it over to the ad companies that are the shareholders of Discord.
    • Discord has lots of security flaws that are abused by third parties all the damn time.

    I know its different now because Discord has nitro and there are lots if good reasons to subscribe. But Discord ran without all if that subscriber funding and in that time they probably found ways to make money off of what resources they had at the time… Information.

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      1 year ago

      That’s how Reddit works/worked. Probably lemmy too though I haven’t looked too close. Deleting your account doesn’t necessarily mean the content your account created is taken with it. Things not being deleted with your account is a werid thing to cite for spy ware, lots of stuff works like that and you can delete it, just isn’t automatically deleted with your account.

      Discord having security flaws does not make it spy ware. There have been some pretty severe security issues but almost every one I’ve heard of has its roots in a gullible user running some sort of application on their machine or scanning a QR code with the Discord app which makes it extremely clear you are logging into another device… The only one I’m aware of that I found very concerning was iirc a werid video player vulnerability that could yank your token.

      I highly doubt Discord is giving advertisers access to the messages on their platform. That sounds insanely illegal and also largly a waste of time cause if they are doing that it doesn’t work very well.

      • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        On reddit you can simply use a tampermonkey script to remove your data. On discord, there is no option to delete all your messages. To the extent that there’s a discussion worth having about whether Discord is following the GDPR.

        Not tackling security issues means discord is okay with third parties exploiting the software to gain info about certain users - which could include hacker groups or government actors targeting single targets.

        I dont think discord can give individual messages over, legally, although they are stored unencrypted on Discord’s server.