Discord is a VoIP and instant messaging social platform. Users have the ability to communicate with voice calls, video calls, text messaging, media and files in private chats or as part of communities called "servers". A server is a collection of persistent chat rooms and voice channels which can be accessed via invite links. Discord runs on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, iPadOS, Linux, and in web browsers. As of 2021, the service has over 350 million registered users and over 150 million monthly active users. Taken from Wikipedia.
Terms of Service, Privacy Policy
I don't know about you guys but me and many other dissidents have tried and tested nearly every email alias commercially available, and none of them worked.
Honestly with these guys constantly pestering you to add a phone number moments after making your account this is only a soft requirement in name only.
Every single message you have sent will still be available in the servers you sent them. Discord claims they anonymize this but it still doesn't change the fact that they have access to these messages before they anonymize it. Use something like Undiscord if you want to erase them.
That explains how I got doxxed multiple times.
Always use it in a browser folks... if you have to use it.
They've also recently removed a clause in their Privacy Policy regarding them not listening to Discord calls. 1984 at its finest folks.
Because they're one of those "We won't be implementing it so we can catch criminals" people. Skill issue if you ask me.
Google hosts most of their data. Yes, Google knows you sent at least 1.6 Tb of furry p*** on an 18+ RP server.
On one hand, they don't directly sell data. On another, imagine buying Nitro lmao.
What'd you expect, Discord actually respects your privacy? Ha!
Once again, the illusion of choice switches make an appearance.
Some have reported getting locked out of their accounts when using Tor and requiring a phone number to unlock it. Never had that problem coz I gave my phone number to them the moment they asked it. Pretty stupid in hindsight.
Apart from your messages not being deleted, Discord will keep copies of your data for "backup and business continuity purposes". Just admit you guys wanna spy on us, eh?
The Android one especially sucks.
Webcord is my personal recommendation for desktop. For mobile there's Aliucord but I never managed to get it working.
Tencent...
Discord was fined 800,000 Euros for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR. Honestly laws should just skip the fines and head straight into the regulation category cause they can make back the deficit with our data for only a month (I made those numbers up for dramatic effect, but some parts should probably be true).
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Analysis: I honestly didn't want to do this cause I've left behind my Discord life a long time ago and it's common knowledge that Discord is spyware, but for the sake of the record I'm gonna pour my heart out one last time on this topic. I admit it, I was a loud and proud user of Discord. My entire life revolved around how many hours I can spend on a server and how many conversations I can join in. Eventually I wanted to gain the power to squash the squabbles which detrimented the atmosphere of the topics I wanted to engage in, so I filled numerous mod applications before being contacted by an old friend to be an admin at his server. And that experience was, simply put, the best months of my life so far. I liked it. I was good at it. And I... I felt alive. Unfortunately, Discord drama led me to resign from that post and wander back to my server to server mod applying before I finally found peace in not holding all the cards. At some point, I just stopped applying and started looking for a place where I could just chill and talk. And it was a few months after that when I realized just how catalogued my journey was. Every message I sent, Every IP and device I logged in, All the times someone sent me NSFW and I was foolish enough to click it, all logged and neatly compacted into a package which they copied and sent to me. I was devastated when I found out that there was at least one party that knew every embarrassing action I did and had access to all the embarrassing files I sent. From that point on I swore to myself I'd never communicate personal and intimate messages on unencrypted channels. I learned to trust E2EE and almost only communicate in a format I knew had complete privacy. I know I'm probably dragging this on for too long so I'll get right to it. The point is, as a youth you may do some stuff which you'll look back as a more mature person and think "Ugh, why'd I do this?", "Why'd I send that?", "Why did I ever chat up this guy?", and so on and so forth. Chances are, a third party has all of that info and will probably store it for as long as a hard drive can store that data. All it takes is one data leak, which happens all the time mind you, for your not so proud story to be publicly available for anyone to read. And I'm pretty sure you'll be as red as a tomato with embarrassment if that ever happens to you. So folks, always read the privacy policy of your service providers. And if you're too lazy to, always assume everything you do within that service is being logged.