Olly42, 15 days ago

Message-Scraping, User-Tracking Service Spy Pet shut down by Discord.

Spy Pet, a service that sold access to a rich database of allegedly 3 billion messages and details on 600 million users, has seemingly been shut down. Discord said that the company's safety team had been "diligently investigating" Spy Pet and that it had banned accounts affiliated with it.

https://www.404media.co/discord-shuts-down-spy-pet-bots-that-scraped-sold-user-messages/

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