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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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What's the privacy of discord like? (with context in the body) (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by altair222@beehaw.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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:

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] ganymede@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

excellent research Arthur Besse!! this cuts through any speculation right to the point. well done!

[–] tmpod 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can't seem to open those links, it says the job offer no longer exists? 🤔

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

they still load for me.... also, the first 3 are on archive.org:

(and the last one says it is saving there now but hasn't yet)

[–] tmpod 2 points 2 years ago

Thank you!