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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14399569
Discord Users Are Being Tracked Through Data-Scraping Site
Internet-scraping outfit Spy.pet claims to have harvested more than four billion public messages made by nearly 620 million users on more than 14,000 Discord chat servers – and is selling access to this trove.
The website presents the data it’s collected in several ways. Each known user has a profile, which contains all known aliases, pronouns, connected accounts to other platforms such as Steam and GitHub, Discord servers joined, and public messages. If you wanted to quite literally spy on a Discord user or users, Spy.pet lets you do that, for a fee.
They didn’t say discord is basically the same as matrix though…
They said the problem is the same for both platforms in this context, which is true. Public posts can be scraped.