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Spy.pet is harvesting your Discord history with no ability to opt-out (stackdiary.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The service offers the ability to purchase credits through cryptocurrencies, as well as offers the data for AI training purposes.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 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.