cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17617609

They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won’t last. They’re going full Microsoft Skype mode and it’s only a matter of time.

  • Zworf ( Zworf@beehaw.org ) 
    102·
    3 years ago

    Good. I hope people will move away from it soon. I hate Discord for banning third-party clients and datamining my system for installed apps. So I’ve never really used it.

    It does mean I’m excluded from some FOSS projects’ support like Home Assistant but to hell with that :P

    • empireOfLove2 ( empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) OP
      18·
      3 years ago

      ideally such changes to advertising and the ToS arbitration clause removing consumer rights will help give a lot of the open-source communities a gentle push to get off of discord. It’s become far too central to too many communities and is impossible to search for knowledge.

      • dan ( dan@upvote.au ) 
        2·
        2 years ago

        never allowed 3rd party apps

        Facebook used to allow third party apps (e.g. Snaptu started as a third-party app before the acquisition) and exposed most of the functionality via their API, but it’s not really a thing any more after Cambridge Analytica - the API was locked down significantly. You can’t really have it both ways… Allowing third-party apps also allows those apps to scrape and store user info, which is what Cambridge Analytica did.

          • dan ( dan@upvote.au ) 
            1·
            2 years ago

            Accessing an API is not scraping.

            I probably used the wrong words… What I meant is that given API access, a malicious third-party can gather a large amount of data and store it in a way that goes against the service’s terms of service, without the proper privacy guarantees (e.g. user data being deleted if they delete their account). Obviously that’s a problem for a social network where people can post a lot of friends-only posts.

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen ( ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml ) 
      6·
      2 years ago

      I’ve only ever used it in browser to limit what it can see on my machine. I was told by one of my coding professors that one of the signs of a virus is if it monitors what apps you’re running, I’ve been cautious ever since of anything that does that (obviously it isn’t the only sign and isn’t instant virus bin, like I have an app that monitors GPU usage and throttles apps to keep from cooking my machine)