Because discord does strong fingerprinting instead of the traditional cookies for identifying people. That’s bad for privacy.
I don’t mind the concept of having chat, but who gets to provide that chat can make or break the feature. If it’s some creepy, invasive group like the people behind Discord, it’s a hard pass for me.
Avoid discord at any cost.
Why?
Because discord does strong fingerprinting instead of the traditional cookies for identifying people. That’s bad for privacy.
I don’t mind the concept of having chat, but who gets to provide that chat can make or break the feature. If it’s some creepy, invasive group like the people behind Discord, it’s a hard pass for me.
Really, we should be moving to E2E encrypted instant messaging in general.
I agree 100%.
We already have a matrix room, this was just an announcement for a kind of chat here, since these rooms are live updating after all.