Heads Up! Discord sells your data

[Negan]

As standard, Discord amongst many other apps sell your data. It's their business model and how they make money. While "if you have nothing to hide, why worry?" is true, why are we as a collective user base allowing it to happen by continuing to use their app?

I've deleted my Discord, just like I did Facebook ten years ago, twitter two years ago, and pretty much any other social networking site / app. Instead, I've opted to start using RetroShare as it's peer to peer with no "middle man" digging through your data.

I just thought I'd share seeing I know a few of you enjoy Discord.

 

[TimeFlipper]

Interesting that you should come up with this info, DoctorZ also had concerns with Discord and refused to go on it..

 

[titorite]

I long ago stopped caring about being a commodity. I know the score and , if I want I know how to disappear and even re-invent. Seriously go to Canada or mexico or any nation with an embasy and just hand them back their Social Security card and renounce citizenship youll get that new identity and all that would come with it... Youd be something elses commodity or debt. But I long ago stopped caring about being a commodity . Ill operate by this worlds workings for now. Im only human

 

[Num7]

It all depends on what info you put on Discord.

For instance, did you include your phone number? Do you disclose personal information in the chat? Did you use your real name or a pseudonym? Are you connected full time from your phone?

If you answer no to all of these questions, they don't have much info to sell anyway.

Like for most online services, always be careful what info you include in your profile.

 

[Negan]

I tend to give as little detail that's needed for anything. Paranormalis is probably the first forum / website in a long time where I'm actually using my real IP.

 

[taykair]

Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.

Othello. Act III. Scene 3.

 

[Kairos]

Well, I guess our cyber overlords have figured out my interests in MILF and pet videos.

 

[Cirrus]

Well, I guess our cyber overlords have figured out my interests in MILF and pet videos.

Again... at the same time?

 

[Kairos]

Again... at the same time?

What is your obsession with doing things at the same time? You seem awfully interested in my technique. Do you need video instruction or something?

 

[Cirrus]

What is your obsession with doing things at the same time? You seem awfully interested in my technique. Do you need video instruction or something?

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