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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

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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If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
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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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[–] GenkiFeral@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TankieReplyBot@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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:

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (1 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:

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 0 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 -1 points 2 years ago

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)