Discord defends itself against efforts to stop piracy on its platform by saying no to more invasive data collection. Even though Discord isn’t exactly known for privacy, this is a great move for its users. What are your thoughts?
Discord defends itself against efforts to stop piracy on its platform by saying no to more invasive data collection. Even though Discord isn’t exactly known for privacy, this is a great move for its users. What are your thoughts?
I’m gonna get flak for this but no, Discord does not sell any user data, no matter how many times people keep repeating it. Quoting a legendary redditor here:
Discord’s privacy policy repeatedly states that they do not sell your personal information:
This is a legal document that they will get in trouble for if they were lying. They’ve already been fined hundreds of thousands of euros for GDPR violations but that curiously did not include a fine for “took people’s personal information and then sold them without consent whilst explicitly saying they didn’t do that”
Discord further has no third party advertisements which they can use to “sell” your data by allowing those advertisements to target you.
Real question. When they say “we don’t sell your data”, that also means they are saying “we don’t trade your information with other companies for other things that aren’t money”, or it doesn’t?
Makes sense. I’ve been getting “quests” and adverts about games I don’t even own. If Discord was selling data for targeted advertising, the adverts would’ve been far more… Targeted.
Still annoying as hell, though, but at least it’s limited to my mobile app. I use Vesktop on my computer.