In order to curb dissatisfaction the Discord CTO released a blog post. In it a lot of c-suite speak and empty words. They claim 90 percent of users won’t be affected. And with caveats I believe them. Most people’s experience probably won’t change. And they will carry on with their spied on lives.
Where I get upset is this claim that these age verification steps won’t at all infringe on privacy or identity. That Discord won’t read messages and won’t track things. I know this is a flat out lie. They already do all of this. It’s their whole fucking business model! I think it’s sickening in attempt to save face they just further lie. It’s like they pretend oh money just magically appears for us. And we offer this free service with no strings attached.
I fear most people will take that post at face value. They will move on and take a blatant lie and accept it. Further reinforcing they can do whatever they want and you’ll comply.
Discord arguably just doubled down on what they are doing hoping you will calm down and forget by launch. While I know the majority of people simply don’t care enough about this stuff. I still fully and emphatically advise everyone get off Discord asap.
The way I see it, it’s only a matter of time until it affects everybody. There are international laws working on being passed that would ban social media for people under 16. If they pass, eventually discord is going to fall under that umbrella or make blanket policy changes like they are now just to avoid running afoul of those laws by default. Then it will probably be asking for an ID to prove you can legally use the service everywhere.
They don’t care discord has always wanted user data
they just further lie. It’s like they pretend oh money just magically appears for us.
No, they pretend nitro is actually popular and gives them a lot of money. At least it’s an excuse that works if you don’t think about it.
Nitro is pretty popular. I know a lot of people including myself that cancelled it over the age verification bs.
They still clearly make money through ads and at the very least they scan messages for spam prevention, but also the fact that they are able to guess users age based on discord usage implies they’re profiling users. For which they probably also utilize message content.
companies/corporations will never backtrack… they will lie, gaslight, do illegal things then blame you and ask for government handouts.
stop listening/trusting companies. they have zero morals and never will.
All they’re doing is finding a new vendor, they’re not backing down on this bullshit at all. And the gall to say “oh we have enough data on most of you already 🥰” is absolutely vile.
Requested my data archive already and getting ready to wipe and delete my account. What a shitshow.
I wiped and deleted the stuff the TOS will already. Haven’t decided if I’m going to do a full TOS breach and delete everything yet or not.
They will move on and take a blatant lie and accept it.
People are on places where many other people are. They know that if they move away from Discord, they will miss out a lot. This affects them, too, resulting in them staying.
That’s the main reason they stay. The other reason is that far too many people don’t care at all about their privacy getting violated. “I have nothing to hide”, they say. Words that I am very allergic to since privacy has absolutely nothing to do with hiding anything.
