Spy.pet is harvesting your Discord history with no ability to opt-out - Stack Diary
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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.

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You have to pay for it…

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Deleted discord recently because of the ads. Glad I did as iv been looking for reason to delete it for a while.

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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.

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Time to switch to alternative open source ones: Revolt, Matrix, Spacebar…

Revolt looks and functions the most like Discord.

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