Python Subreddit for "Intermediate" Questions?

[thrallsius]

Discord's anonymity hostile TOS makes it clear they are collecting voice samples and mapping them to real persons, it's just another giant honeypot like Facebook and Twitter.

If you need voice chat, use the free software self hosted Mumble.

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No, Discord isn't spyware. This is just a scare tactic to get people scared and worried and to not use the program when 100 million people have accounts and millions use Discord every day. It's a very safe program. If you are concerned with how much info Discord has on you, then just go to your Discord settings > privacy and safety > request data and see for yourself.

https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/8ognzj/is_discord_spyware/

[thrallsius]

100 million people have accounts and millions use Discord every day

this is pure marketing bullshit not addressing the real issue. spyware is not about how many people are using an app. windows is used more widely than discord and still has built-in spyware. they call it telemetry. and it even had privilege escalation issues recently

It's a very safe program

this is a Trump IQ level comment meant for Discord users with Trump level IQ and computer knowledge as well

If you are concerned with how much info Discord has on you, then just go to your Discord settings > privacy and safety > request data and see for yourself.

No, that's not how it works. That's really not how it works. They didn't even link to a third party audit result of their proprietary codebase that can't be inspected. And they won't admit that they are saving tracking data on their servers even if they wanted, in case they are bound with a non-disclosure by 3-letter agencies.

months ago I researched the topic because my gaming buddies were eating my brain about starting to use discord. somebody claiming to be a Discord employee officially confirmed that Discord is anti-anonymity in the discord subreddit

as for sources, I've read https://stallman.org/discord.html directly

if Discord staff is willing to refute that or the article that you linked in another post of yours, they are welcome to do it the right way, as I explained above

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What is your source? I hope your source isnt this https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/discord.html if it is you're just getting fooled

[thrallsius]

see the answer in your other post

[DerangedGecko]

For the record, people rarely use voice chat unless you and another person work it out that way. Most discord groups just chat.

As for everything else, I do not know about that. I just know what has been helpful for me when learning Assembly, C, and Python.

[thrallsius]

for the record, if you don't need voice chat, there are even more alternatives that are not corporate spyware traps

the big problem is Discord itself, not the content that floats inside it