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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F0jE1UAdt8 Hear about what the leaked secrets from Discord really were. I am shocked that such a liberal channel is the one giving me the facts this time! Perhaps some liberals still hate war after all.
A YouTube link was detected in your comment. Here are links to the same video on Invidious, which is a YouTube frontend that protects your privacy:
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:
I can’t seem to open those links, it says the job offer no longer exists? 🤔
they still load for me… also, the first 3 are on archive.org:
- https://web.archive.org/web/20230323043434/https://discord.com/jobs/6590671002
- https://web.archive.org/web/20230314182529/https://discord.com/jobs/5806068002
- https://web.archive.org/web/20230314182529/https://discord.com/jobs/6588400002
(and the last one says it is saving there now but hasn’t yet)
