Discord banned a mass of accounts that were part of a service that scraped and sold user data, including messages posted across servers and what voice channels they joined, 404 Media has learned. The move comes after 404 Media reported on the service, called Spy Pet, last week and verified it was selling access to genuine user messages ripped from Discord servers.
Since then, and especially over the last several days, the number of servers that Spy Pet says it collects data from has fluctuated, dropping from around 14,000 to 12,000, before eventually on Thursday reaching zero. As of Friday, the Spy Pet website is also unavailable, and Discord says it is considering legal action against the site.
404 Media should also investigate what they do with all those phone numbers they collect, as a security measure.
What would you do if you found out I’ve been copying all your comments for the past week, changing them slightly, and then reposted them on a certain website without giving you any credit whatssoever?
What would you do if you found out I’ve been copying all your comments for the past week, changing them slightly, and then reposted them on a certain website without giving you any credit whatssoever?
It’s so weird how some people get so bent out of shape over this.
At the end of the day, its just a fucking link.
Because it’s embarrassing, there’s enough cringe here as it is how am I supposed to say to people ‘hey come and try out lemmy’ when they’re gong to see this sovcit Facebook mom stuff?
how am I supposed to say to people ‘hey come and try out lemmy’ when they’re gong to see this sovcit Facebook mom stuff?
They’re going to read comments shilling for corpos, excusing China/Russia/Israel’s human rights violations… and a link towards an open source license at the end of someone’s comments is what you’re worried about?
Because it’s embarrassing,
I do what’s right, and not what may or may not embarrass me.
I’m actually embarrassed that someone else would suggest not using a Creative Commons license to its full capability.
there’s enough cringe here as it is
Cringe is in the eye of the beholder.
how am I supposed to say to people ‘hey come and try out lemmy’ when they’re gong to see this sovcit Facebook mom stuff?
Just explain to them that Lemmy is a friendly and open place, where all different types of people with different opinions and ways of thinking can converse with each other freely, without fear of being harrased/insulted.
So the answer is nothing. You would do nothing.
So what’s the point of the “fucking link”?
And what’s the point of your comment, apart for trying to spark a controversy out of nowhere?
So the answer is nothing. You would do nothing.
So what’s the point of the “fucking link”?
I’m not going to repeat myself all over again. I’ve already stated elsewhere in this conversation what I would do.
Stop being so angry, it’s just a link.
And look, I made it even smaller, just for you…
Locking the barn after the horse is stolen.
Better than leaving the barn wide open
But they are leaving it open…
The spy[.]pet domain got taken down, but soon after the developer published the same website under a new domain spying[.]pet…
If the Threadiverse gets large enough for data to be worth mining, they’re gonna be pulling off it too, if not already.
EDIT: and as I’ve pointed out before, at least with current lemmy instances, it’s probably not that hard to get a user’s IP. I don’t know how viable it is to get that for a Discord user.
You can’t get a Discord user’s IP address in the app itself as every interaction is proxied through Discord’s backend first.
People do click on sketchy links and hand over their IP though, and Discord can’t do much about those situations
