Site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, all on sale
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Internet-scraping outfit Spy.pet claims to have harvested more than four billion public messages made by nearly 620 million users on more than 14,000 Discord chat servers – and is selling access to this trove.

The website presents the data it’s collected in several ways. Each known user has a profile, which contains all known aliases, pronouns, connected accounts to other platforms such as Steam and GitHub, Discord servers joined, and public messages. If you wanted to quite literally spy on a Discord user or users, Spy.pet lets you do that, for a fee.

  • warm@kbin.earth
    10·
    7 months ago

    Always the case with public information, everything is scraped. Anyone can join a public discord server, so anyone can see every message posted there. The real crime is the lack of encryption in private messages.

    • tb_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      Yeah but generally it’s unfeasible to find out every (public) server a particular user is in, now you can just search for them.

      It, at the very least, lowers the barrier to stalking by a lot.

      • warm@kbin.earth
        2·
        7 months ago

        Yeah, but that’s an unfortunate side effect of a public internet, they tell you to be careful online for a reason. You should have no expectation of privacy when using Discord.

      • warm@kbin.earth
        3·
        7 months ago

        Yeah, they are just slapping a bot in public servers and scraping all public facing data such as profile data and chat messages. Still, no reason for PMs to be plain-text in general, but hey, that’s Discord!