They could be harvesting data about non-game related applications to get a better sense of what types of users are using Discord and how much they do, and this seems plausible for marketing reasons. We don't even know what exactly it tracks with respect to games, which it claims to be the only thing of interest. A bit of a wonky metaphor, but it's the overstepping of boundaries that's the point here. But to scan people's computer usage is like having the aforementioned figurative salesman that normally comes at you on the streets instead show up at your door, let himself in and tell you "oh, don't worry, I don't need to sell you anything, I just like being in here, just do whatever you usually do" while he wanders the house at will. I don't have to buy into them (assuming they're reasonably placed) and presumably the ad partner gets paid either way.
I don't like them, but I'm not paying for the service so it's a price I have to suck up (or pay premium). I can live with ads being pushed in front of me. And they merge the threads claiming they're the same issue, and opt to keep the one that's more innocuous towards them? That doesn't sit right.ĭiscord is free, so screaming about the removal of what presumably weighs into their revenue model might be a bit entitled on the part of us users, but this seems like a line crossed. This one began by basically asking for an option to tweak what to show publicly to other users, while the poster of the thread that got closed was criticizing the monitoring in general. The support team even went so far as to close a thread that was opened to criticize this directly, and they claimed it was the same issue that the current thread was opened with, which is far removed from the other thread in direction. As if to say "make it better at identifying games" instead of "stop scanning my programs". Discord actively monitors your executables, but the larger concern for people now seems to be its inaccuracy in identifying them as games.
I am pretty flabbergasted that people aren't making a bigger deal of this than they are. I did go into similar detail about my complaints in the original comment that got deleted which I regret not having repeated in the second. Just to expand a bit on my comment in lieu of Lifell's which I strongly agree with it, and which is more thoroughly directed at the problem than mine. It's mostly good now, although it can of course be a lot better with some work.īut as " Smidgens" says, it scans your system without an option to turn it off and hoards info from people their systems. Even if you don't use that option, you're still being logged.Ī lot of people seem to choose to not care but it needs to stop before Discord turns into something horrible. One of the things is the "login with facebook" on quite a lot of websites. For anyone unaware, even if you don't have a facebook account you will still be monitored by facebook. If I see "login with Discord" in a year or so I won't be surprised. It might be exaggerating to say that Discord is turning into Facebook for gamers. I have no idea what more is being scanned and we can't know. I know they do and it seem Discord knows as well. But it is shown on the Warframe store page on Discord that a shitton of people play it. Nobody of my friends play Warframe on Discord.
But also the fact that it scans everything and information like what we play and our playtime is stored on your servers (without any option to turn it off) is something that is insane. It's as a feature already annoying that it lacks the most basic options. I agree with " Aeon1704" and " Smidgens".
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