Too late assholes… I’m already deleting most of the posts I made on my discord and I will be migrating elsewhere soon.
Sorry but I’m not clicking a link ending in .ai
I’ll wait for another source.
What do you have against the British overseas territory of Anguilla? Ultra-specific geographical prejudice.
Archive link for the article: https://archive.ph/JN2sD
I’m good bro.
It looks like you’re using a DNS server that archive.ph sabotages (1.1.1.1, 9.9.9.9, etc.) not that the website is unsafe. Also, if you’re that concerned about your privacy I recommend using a VPN such as Mullvad (and their DNS server isn’t sabotaged by archive.ph!)
Could this be it? I forgot I have the dns with a filter list to try block ads and trackers at the dns level.
Yes, that’s likely it.
You would rather read an ad filled article than read the Archive version of it…?
I rather not read it at all if it comprises my security.
It’s an archive site, what form fields would you be POSTing?
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I left as soon as I saw something asking for age verification in the client.
The cat has been let out of the bag. I’m still moving somewhere else once I figured out where with friends.
They aren’t walking back anything. They just repeated their claim, that “most people won’t even have to give their IDs, because our AI will read all your messages and decide if you’re 18”
because our AI will read all your messages and decide if you’re 18
What the fuck that’s even worse
I read thay Youtube is doing that with watch history so teens are watching videos about taxes, back pain, retirement benefits and such to appear old.
Too late, already uninstalled like a week ago.
They still have the AI shit that looks at your posts to try and determine if you are an adult.
Fuck that.
Like everything else everyone has ever posted outside the fediverse?
There’s shitloads of AIs reading the fediverse, too. Absolutely doing the same infomining as the discord age bot - but it’s not the moderators doing it, at least.
nods I suspected as much.
Never seen any search results through :)
They had it way before they announced, apparently. Because I ate a ban for apparently saying I’m 9 somewhere (I don’t actually remember posting that, I suspect a certain someone got to my account to get me banned).
?? You don’t get to walk back my fears. You can walk back the source, but you don’t get to say “nevermind, you’re not worried about this”.
Yeah, so, “most users” won’t have to post video selfies or their ID, but you’ll still have to accept active spyware feeding information to an AI model that checks all your activity.
This is still equally as bad.
They didn’t walk back shit, they upped the stakes by saying they use your chats to analyse your age. That’s just as bad.
They were already doing that.
Every advertising company already monitors you whenever possible to determine things like your age to target ads as effectively as possible. If a isn’t relying on a third party for advertising like Google AdSense, and they’re handling it internally, they definitely know that info.
I assumed they were already doing that, after all the IPO is coming do they will be doing all they can to make money and avoid risk. Admitting it however shows they are desperate.
If I used discord, they would assume I’m 7 years old.
goes back to sitting on the living room floor, and watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles while eating cereal with gummy bears added in
Jokes on you, discord! I’m 42!
They definitely know you’re 42. Kids these days don’t have the attention span for longer, plot-heavy cartoons like TMNT.
it is admittedly going to be a bit funny if some immature 45 year old man child gets flagged as a teen
To think they weren’t already doing that is naive. They hold a lot of liability hosting the amount of data they do, and that’s without the obvious gain they’d have selling data.
I think the article title is technically correct. They walked back the fears that users had. You’re right that they haven’t changed their policy, and they’ve exposed themselves as being extra creepy to someone like us, but we aren’t the majority of Discord users.
I imagine the average Discord user, if they were even aware of this change at all, is breathing a sigh of relief right now, until these changes (or changes like them) actually affect those people
That’s why I am deleting my shit and going to delete my account.
Deleting posts is just setting visibility to 0. They still exist, and you should assume they exist forever.
Yep. Too late, i fucking deleted that shit without hesitation or regret.
Oh look, so they’re saying they’re already training ai on all the data they have on us? Yeah I feel my privacy being so respected.
- They’re instead scanning your data using AI… Not exactly an improvement.
- Shitty AI article.
- They were ALREADY scanning your data using AI… And banning people for simply discussing certain topics.
- How do people even notice these things? I honestly couldn’t tell. (Edit: okay, I forgot about the domain)
Anyways, I’m trying to get people in specific vulnerable communities to switch to matrix. But the amount of people refusing to do so out of convenience (and even refusing to setup MFA or using different passwords for their online accounts, including discord) is staggering.
I get your point. But unfortunately the sad truth is, even IF we can convince techie nerds to switch, do you really believe we could convince the vast majority of the ignorant public? The answer is no. And even as a techie who works with computers on a daily basis, I have my reservations about Matrix. It is a slow, buggy, hot mess for the most part, and it’s even more inconvenient when it comes to voice/video chat.
What I’m learning from this is that there is NO FEASIBLE alternative to Discord, let alone one the general public would be willing to switch to. I’ve now got the task of converting my friends to Signal as a temporary half-measure before we have a reliable alternative, but things aren’t looking good.
I agree that matrix is a slow and buggy hot mess, but its issues mainly lie with scaling. As long as your instance is small it works well enough. Imo this is architectural and will never be fixed with synapse.
As for no alternatives for discord. I think the problem is that people have come to expect a certain level of QoS with hosted services that are expensive to maintain for hobbyists (cdn, load balancing, nat traversal, ddos protection, etc). I think this is fundamental to how we’re abusing IP when it’s way past its prime and on life support using middle boxes. If we want to reclaim this space, the best way forward would be something like NDN, but the transition would be astronomical that nobody wants to do it.
Too late. The dust has already settled.
hold up.
so y’all took the two hottest takes in online culture right now and decided to do both of them?
what the actual fuck is wrong with people these days. it’s almost like everyone in silicon valley is fucking delusional.
so we’re going to invade your right to privacy and scan your identity then sell it to 3rd parties. oh, that’s not acceptable? well I guess we could have AI profile you and then we still sell your identity to 3rd parties. fuck me you say? shockedpikachu.jpg
