Site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, all on sale
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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.

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 months ago

    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 didn’t connect to those other platforms, used unique email and username, and lied about your pronouns and other info (i.e. age), how damaging could this be?

    I’m forced to use discord, unfortunately, but none of the data they have on me would match my actual identity or other accounts (which all have unique emails and usernames anyway).

    • WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      7 months ago

      why’d you lie about pronouns lol. Unless your trans and haven’t come out yet I don’t see a reason to. Rest of your comment is valid though and I agree. I don’t think anything that advertising companies haven’t found out about me through other means anyway can be gotten from this data.

      • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
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        7 months ago

        In the US there are several laws about providing abortions to women. If one such group existed on Discord, it could be used by legal, extralegal, and extremist interests to target those women.

        Trans people just aren’t official targets of legal discrimination…

        …Well, not across every US state.

        …Not yet, at least.

      • Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish
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        7 months ago

        What @LWD@lemm.ee said, but I do think it would be about profiling (for whatever reason), and the less they know, the better.

      • pory@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        If there’s a personal information field, filling it with random noise is marginally better than leaving it blank. The pronouns field is new but I’ve noticed a lot of women friends (that have gender neutral usernames and profile pics, and no linked social media) opting to not use it or set it to he/him because having it filled out accurately caused trolls and bots and incels to fill their DMs.