In an apparent effort to boost revenues, gaming social media startup Discord plans to implement ads into its free service. The step is expected in the coming days after 9 years of ad-free experience.

I don’t think people on this sub use it, but it’s great news for us. The worse it gets the likelier people move on.

  • airikr
    81·
    3 months ago
    • Nope. Not everywhere.
    • The actual data is stored in plain text. The hard drive is encrypted. This is called encryption at-rest which Discord uses. Even Google uses this for Google Drive. Hackers “can’t” access the data, but the people working there can. It doesn’t matter if they have fancy roles, your personal data can be access by the people at the company. Your personal data should always stay personal.
    • No cookies. Stored on their servers.
    • I was forced to enter my phone number before I got as privacy aware as I am today. I doubt that has changed.
    • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      3 months ago
      • Sure, but I think it’s safe to assume your IP is near public information when connecting to any domain.
      • Okay, this is a fair point, I don’t think anyone at any company should have sensitive data open to employees. That’d be as bad as having passwords accessible by X role at the company.
      • Near meaningless data though. It’d be like if it knew if your keyboard was connected or not. It’s hard to use that information.
      • From what I understand, services use phone numbers because it’s harder for bot accounts to be spammed. Whether they allow themselves to go beyond that is up to the company. Even Counter-Strike and Valorant, competitive games in general, do this to curb the automated userbase.
      • airikrEnglish
        31·
        3 months ago
        • Your IP address should always be private even if it is good with IP bans. But IP bans do not fix the issue if it is not a static IP address that the users always has.
        • Exactly :)
        • Yepp! But they do log it anyway. So the question is why do the log this data? To build a better service? Might be, yes, but it would be much better if they let their users to choose if they want to share this information. Not log it automatically behind their backs (many do not read privacy policies).
        • I understand that, but they should not force users to enter their phone number. They should instead come up with another solution like require more CAPTCHA’s. Phone numbers is “the best” solution, but should not be standard.