Spy.pet is harvesting your Discord history with no ability to opt-out - Stack Diary
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Discord is one of the few instant messaging platforms that makes it easy to forget that your chat history is recorded. Every chat message you send in a public channel can be accessed by anyone, regardless of the timeline. As a Discord user, I tend to forget that this option exists, especially when it comes to searching for individual users'

The service offers the ability to purchase credits through cryptocurrencies, as well as offers the data for AI training purposes.

    • chameleon@kbin.social
      15·
      3 months ago

      I think they’ll give it a genuine shot. These stalking services pop up like weeds and every time it gets some media attention they end up with significant problems not much later. dis.cool was the last well-known entry but there’s been more.

    • rar@discuss.onlineEnglish
      92·
      3 months ago

      Can’t wait for it to die and wither out. But I know they will retain a big pool of users on hostage like reddit or fb for a while.

  • SoupBrick@yiffit.netEnglish
    681·
    3 months ago

    From the article, the data collection hinges on a bot going into a public server then scraping the history. Still a problem that Discord should act on, but it looks like there is no need to worry about private servers.

    • themachine@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      Does anyone know what kind of naming pattern or bot identification methods we could use? I belong to a small public server that’s there to serve a public need.

      • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        You could probably have a verification system thing that I’ve seen some public servers have where you have to complete some action before getting access to the actual channels.

    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29·
      3 months ago

      “private” = small ‘servers’ that aren’t in the public index (I think you have to have like 500 people to be eligible or something), or…?

  • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4611·
    3 months ago

    This… this is nothing. Oh no, my messages on public servers are being scraped! Good thing I haven’t said anything in a public server I didn’t fully intend on being there forever.

    The Discord haters will feast on anything. Granted, this should still be shutdown as a TOS violation but acting like this is a profound intrusion on privacy? Get ahold of yourselves. This is no different from Tweets being scraped or Facebook wall posts. Don’t add the bot to servers you don’t want it on and it’s a nonissue.

    • joshhsoj1902@lemmy.caEnglish
      22·
      3 months ago

      If they could somehow make this data available to search engines. Maybe we can start being able to google random problems and actually find solutions again.

    • IcePee@lemmy.beru.coEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      This is assuming the bots are allowed (or, at least not prevented in coming) in by the server admin and the bot is not obfuscated some how. If the bots are taking advantage of an expolit, or not being up front, then we have trouble.

    • eyeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      the content being scraped is from users, they do not control what bots are added to servers.

      It’s much more like the Cambridge Analytics scandal in that users posted content that was shared with friends but not explicitly shared publicly, but those friends then granted a third party access to all of the data.

  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
    231·
    3 months ago

    it redirects to a video of the infamous Jonah Jameson’s “Are you serious?” scene from Spider-Man

    No, it hosts the video. DMCA!!1!!1!!!

    Edit: Italicized “hosts”. Wish we could use the <em> tag.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    31·
    3 months ago

    I don’t have a Discord history, so that’s one problem taken care of.