In order to curb dissatisfaction the Discord CTO released a blog post. In it a lot of c-suite speak and empty words. They claim 90 percent of users won’t be affected. And with caveats I believe them. Most people’s experience probably won’t change. And they will carry on with their spied on lives.
Where I get upset is this claim that these age verification steps won’t at all infringe on privacy or identity. That Discord won’t read messages and won’t track things. I know this is a flat out lie. They already do all of this. It’s their whole fucking business model! I think it’s sickening in attempt to save face they just further lie. It’s like they pretend oh money just magically appears for us. And we offer this free service with no strings attached.
I fear most people will take that post at face value. They will move on and take a blatant lie and accept it. Further reinforcing they can do whatever they want and you’ll comply.
Discord arguably just doubled down on what they are doing hoping you will calm down and forget by launch. While I know the majority of people simply don’t care enough about this stuff. I still fully and emphatically advise everyone get off Discord asap.
Yeah the mass majority will just accept whatever the rest of their peers accept, look at how many people still use facebook, tiktok, Instagram, twitter, reddit even with their yearly news about data harvesting selling to ads and now AI. Unfortunately discord is such a big package for gaming.
Tiktok isn’t that old and that it was able to break into being part of category of apps people have a hard time deleting does give hope that not all hope is lost for a new app to join the ranks.
Will just take time for features to match discord and a question of if it’ll be a new shady corporate app that gains popularity.
TikTok got its hold mainly by being extremely addictive and using predatory dark patterns to keep you scrolling. That and being less censored compared to other corporate social media. While we can try to strive for the latter (with reasonable limitations), we shall not do the former, even if that means less users overall. “Avoid success at all costs”.
tiktok may be a new app but it will spy on you the most :) it fuelled itself by using the money they got from selling your data to advertise itself in every spare pixel of the internet
no app with an ethical TOS & other acronyms could rise to the top like that. even word of mouth is slowly dying, there’s too much white noise around (bots)
Yep, Larry Ellison, the new owner of TikTok USA is absolutely no friend too Privacy. He got his start with a little database project for the CIA called Oracle.
I remember when it initially flooded reddit feeds as a Chinese app with /r/all having random Chinese dancing clips and so on. Then next thing I knew everyone was using it. I didn’t though. Was sketched out by the app permissions. And it’s even worse now with the ownership change.