Ashley's Personal site - Reasons not to use Discord (yes ik i use it)

The Discord communications system requires running a nonfree client program. That alone is reason to refuse to use it.

The program reportedly collects lots of data about users.
The developer denies the claim that Discord reports which processes are running on the user's machine. I have no way of determining the facts about this specific point. Whether it collects those particular data is a minor detail; I mention it only to avoid appearing to assert a criticism that might not be true.

For the same reason, I mention that selling personal data is not the sole way that the company makes money.
I don't think that question how it makes money really matters. What matters, ethically, is what the software does to users. The developers' motives for making it do those things are pertinent to understanding the situation but should not affect our moral judgment of mistreatment of users.

Discord may demand to talk with you by phone if it decides you are suspicious — for instance, if you contact it via Tor.

Reportedly the Discord web app sends tracking data to /science instead of the usual /track, so as to thwart extensions to limit tracking. Reportedly there is a switch that disables (some) data collection, but it doesn't affect the sending of tracking data to the server. If you know of references for this information, please tell me.

WHAT TO USE

i would suggest a privacy first alternetive,such as revolt or matrix

Why do i still use it?

good question,well beacause all of my friends are there. i cant switch all of my friends to revolt or something lmao

How do i use it?

i use an free client to chat on discord ^^ you can too owo : https://github.com/ashley0143/discord-unspy

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