Comment by sebstefan
16 days ago
> Key privacy protections of Discord’s age-assurance approach include:
> On-device processing: Video selfies for facial age estimation never leave a user’s device.
> Quick deletion: Identity documents submitted to our vendor partners are deleted quickly— in most cases, immediately after age confirmation.
> Straightforward verification: In most cases, users complete the process once and their Discord experience adapts to their verified age group. Users may be asked to use multiple methods only when more information is needed to assign an age group.
> Private status: A user’s age verification status cannot be seen by other users.
Yes, I definitely trust the multi-billion dollar corporation regarding my data
Discord is an app that's so routinely reverse-engineered there are projects with a million+ users designed around patching changes to it, straight in the binary.
https://betterdiscord.app/
Do you think their big evil plan is to make up a lie that will last maybe 3 weeks, jeopardize the user trust and lose nitro revenue
Surely there is so much money to be made selling random people's faces.
If they tell you they're not selling your data they're not selling your data. What you should worry about is incompetence
Not even 6 months ago a third party they used for ID verification got breached
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jmzd972leo
> Do you think their big evil plan is to make up a lie that will last maybe 3 weeks, jeopardize the user trust and lose nitro revenue
???? Yes? Companies nuke their core product all the time for the sake of a big IPO number.
Of course discord has no track record of overextending their privacy policy and selling data you would not expect (sarcasm).
For example but not limited to "programs you run and other system specific information". I believe I read a while back they recorded titles of all opened windows but I can't seem to find a reference for that.
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/rsxeee/you_should_...
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Surely there is so much money to be made selling random people's faces.
I really hope I misread sarcasm in that statement. Because of course there is a lot of money in that
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Vencord is more patching Discord: https://github.com/Vendicated/Vencord
BetterDiscord is more... client modding to enable userscripts. Vencord is actually running find-and-replace on Discord's Webpack modules to implement deeper integrations. They're far more reverse-engineering than BetterDiscord's monkey-patching.
I think selling it to state actors lined could definitely be a big boon. I'll never trust them, I'd rather delete my account
Do you think they reverse engineer the server side?
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Right, because that never happened to discord or any other multibillion VC fueled company that offers its services for free. See also meta repeatedly lying about absolutely anything that has to do with privacy.
> If they tell you they're not selling your data they're not selling your data.
Oh you naive child. /s
If they tell you they are not selling your data, its because they have a license agreement with another company which is selling your data. 'They' very specifically arent selling it, however they are very much profitting from other companies using it.