A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users’ Messages

An online service is scraping Discord servers en masse, archiving and tracking users’ messages and activity across servers including what voice channels they join, and then selling access to that data for as little as $5. Called Spy Pet, the service’s creator says it scrapes more than ten thousand Discord servers, and besides selling access to anyone with cryptocurrency, is also offering the data for training AI models or to assist law enforcement agencies, according to its website.

umbrella,
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is the spy site discord?

p03locke,
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Internet Archive is also doing this with web pages, sooo…

Try again, 404 Journalism Not Found.

thanks_shakey_snake,

The title still works if you remove the word “scraping,” too. (I mean, except grammatically)

nothacking,

Oh no, public is public. Don’t post stuff on the internet you don’t want to be saved and possibly indexed forever.

phdepressed,

Pretty sure this goes against discord ToS because Discord wants to do that themselves.

starman,
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They don’t care about ToS as long as you don’t use 3rd party client

gravitywell,

So like… Public messages they posed on public servers are being published…and a company other than discord is profiting from this? Oh no! I better be careful what I post on discord… Next thing you know they’ll start selling Lemmy data too.

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