PSA: do you use loli oriented Discord servers? Your posts might have been scraped

[User_92739]

Article: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/billions-of-public-discord-messages-may-be-sold-through-a-scraping-service/

"[Spy Pet] claims to be catching and compiling that data and is offering packages that can track more than 600 million users across more than 14,000 servers. [...]
[Spy Pet] sells access to a database of purportedly 3 billion Discord messages, offers data "credits" to customers who pay in bitcoin, ethereum, or other cryptocurrency. Searching individual users will reveal the servers that Spy Pet can track them across, a raw and exportable table of their messages, and connected accounts, such as GitHub.[...]
This author found nearly every public Discord he had ever dropped into for research or reporting in Spy Pet's server list. "


article: [URL]https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages/[/URL]

"With Spy Pet, third-parties including stalkers or potentially police can look up specific users and see what messages they’ve posted on various servers at once. [...]
On a section of the website listing different servers, a total of more than 86,000 servers are included. Spy Pet does not appear to be actively collecting from many of those though, with a message reading “We have no bots in this server, so we aren't tracking it, but we know it exists.” [...]
There is no indication that Spy Pet has obtained private messages sent between individual Discord users. It appears Spy Pet is scraping channels inside Discord servers and then making those messages available to customers."

 

[Nosian]

Article: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/billions-of-public-discord-messages-may-be-sold-through-a-scraping-service/

"[Spy Pet] claims to be catching and compiling that data and is offering packages that can track more than 600 million users across more than 14,000 servers. [...]
[Spy Pet] sells access to a database of purportedly 3 billion Discord messages, offers data "credits" to customers who pay in bitcoin, ethereum, or other cryptocurrency. Searching individual users will reveal the servers that Spy Pet can track them across, a raw and exportable table of their messages, and connected accounts, such as GitHub.[...]
This author found nearly every public Discord he had ever dropped into for research or reporting in Spy Pet's server list. "


article: [URL]https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages/[/URL]

"With Spy Pet, third-parties including stalkers or potentially police can look up specific users and see what messages they’ve posted on various servers at once. [...]
On a section of the website listing different servers, a total of more than 86,000 servers are included. Spy Pet does not appear to be actively collecting from many of those though, with a message reading “We have no bots in this server, so we aren't tracking it, but we know it exists.” [...]
There is no indication that Spy Pet has obtained private messages sent between individual Discord users. It appears Spy Pet is scraping channels inside Discord servers and then making those messages available to customers."

Thank god I'm so anti-social... I've never had a desire to be in any discord server, let alone with a subject matter that is seen so negatively by the majority of the public.

 

[lolcow30]

You must have a death wish if you think you're safe from anything on Discord.

 

[Gorion]

Meh, it's a concern sure. But how are they doing it? Kind of feels more scare tactic and scammy to me than anything.

 

[Tomo21]

no i keep that part of me off discord

 

[Republican Bear]

No but as said already Discord is scrapping most posts and communities with such content. Not surprised by this action either.

 

[User_80256]

I don't have Discord account, so I generally don't give a damn.

 

[Lucumo]

I don't use Discord.

Also, they save everything you write anyway and analyze what you say but hey, no one cares about privacy anyway.

 

[Jakeswind]

I don't use discord but created a account once.

 

[firejamie]

I have a discord but I only use it for games or Vtuber stuff so no worries for me.

 

[Daisies]

Having a loli-centered Discord server sounds like an incredibly bad idea lmfao. It's already well known Discord devs monitor servers and are very anti-loli/shota (despite the Discord devs themselves being into furry cubs, and they seem to put more effort cracking down on loli content than they do on the, y'know, actual grooming and ****phile rings in Discord).

 

[firejamie]

Having a loli-centered Discord server sounds like an incredibly bad idea lmfao. It's already well known Discord devs monitor servers and are very anti-loli/shota (despite the Discord devs themselves being into furry cubs, and they seem to put more effort cracking down on loli content than they do on the, y'know, actual grooming and ****phile rings in Discord).

And good luck getting them to actually do their dang jobs at that.

 

[Alex1980]

Thank all the gods and goddesses, I did not, do not, and will not have a Discord account.

 

[orphan]

the dark side has to remain hidden, even from the best of friends

 

[Loliholic]

I'd never use any chat app and dont create accounts. However, since i also refuse to use spyware like steam, i need to use the web version from time to time to contact modders, but thats it, i dont chat.

 

[juustomestari]

I have never even thought about using discord for porn. I guess I’m a boomer.