So I’ve started using Ublock Origin on my firefox on Ubuntu, and I noticed that it showed no blocked trackers on the webapp of discord. I’m well aware of the perils of using any service that doesnt support e2ee for private messaging and i hate discord for that and being corporate, But i was wondering how bad would it be for browsing communities on it given the supposed and seemingly “lack” of trackers detected for it.
Discord says they aren’t selling user data, but from the job descriptions they’re currently hiring for you can see that they are clearly collecting and analyzing a lot of it:
Very likely they are using the text and voice data to train a AI or offer that data as training material for other companies working on AI. Their recent change in privacy policy was pretty clear that this is happening and they extended it to voice data now.
excellent research Arthur Besse!! this cuts through any speculation right to the point. well done!
You won’t find any trackers on the facebook app either, but it’s just because everything meta needs to track is already “inside” the app. Same thing goes for discord
Yeah, when you log in with an account, they don’t need a separate mechanism of identifying you.
If we go by your argument (which i dont doubt at all that they track inside movements), what would inspire something like twitch to add trackers to it, then? Asking purely for academic considerations.
Twitch belongs to Amazon, so they integrate with the wider Amazon user tracking and ad targeting system.
To add to that, you dont need an account to use twitch
To add to that, you dont need an account to use twitch
Your data already resides completely viewable to them without you knowing any better. Discord could sell off every single one of your messages without your knowledge and without using any trackers built into the app/website itself.
Precisely!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F0jE1UAdt8 Hear about what the leaked secrets from Discord really were. I am shocked that such a liberal channel is the one giving me the facts this time! Perhaps some liberals still hate war after all.
A YouTube link was detected in your comment. Here are links to the same video on Invidious, which is a YouTube frontend that protects your privacy: