The service offers the ability to purchase credits through cryptocurrencies, as well as offers the data for AI training purposes.

    • chameleon@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      2 years ago

      I think they’ll give it a genuine shot. These stalking services pop up like weeds and every time it gets some media attention they end up with significant problems not much later. dis.cool was the last well-known entry but there’s been more.

    • rar@discuss.online
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      2 years ago

      Can’t wait for it to die and wither out. But I know they will retain a big pool of users on hostage like reddit or fb for a while.

  • SoupBrick@yiffit.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    34
    ·
    2 years ago

    From the article, the data collection hinges on a bot going into a public server then scraping the history. Still a problem that Discord should act on, but it looks like there is no need to worry about private servers.

  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    it redirects to a video of the infamous Jonah Jameson’s “Are you serious?” scene from Spider-Man

    No, it hosts the video. DMCA!!1!!1!!!

    Edit: Italicized “hosts”. Wish we could use the <em> tag.

  • tal@lemmy.today
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    2 years ago

    I don’t have a Discord history, so that’s one problem taken care of.