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What are the privacy concerns for using Discord? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Zeer0@sopuli.xyz to c/explainlikeimfive@lemmy.world
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Data mining? Selling info? Weak security? I've seen Discord mentioned a lot but know nothing about it. Gracias!

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[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 26 points 2 months ago

It’s easy to think that Discord isn’t reading your messages or listening to your calls, because the utilize End to End Encryption.

It's easy to think they're reading your messages, because they don't use E2E (only calls use it).
They admit that right in the link you sent.

They also keep scanning your computer for running processes with no way to disable it (for game detection).

tl;dr is if you care about privacy, do not use Discord, or at least not for anything more serious than sending memes.