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Discord Users Are Being Tracked Through Data-Scraping Site (www.theregister.com)

submitted 7 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Internet-scraping outfit Spy.pet claims to have harvested more than four billion public messages made by nearly 620 million users on more than 14,000 Discord chat servers – and is selling access to this trove.

The website presents the data it's collected in several ways. Each known user has a profile, which contains all known aliases, pronouns, connected accounts to other platforms such as Steam and GitHub, Discord servers joined, and public messages. If you wanted to quite literally spy on a Discord user or users, Spy.pet lets you do that, for a fee.

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Good thing I have 5 Gmail accounts and never use my main for anything.

Go ahead. Track foggymailjunk@gmail.com and all my preferences.

[–] hakase@sh.itjust.works 20 points 7 months ago (3 children)

never use my main for anything

Are you sure it's your main?

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I use it for professional and personal things. Friends, family, official forms like for work, etc. and it's 5 characters, readable, no numbers. I could legit sell it for >$1000 and it doesn't get any spam beyond shit from my CC offering me deals and other stuff that makes a tangible amount of sense to be on my main email.

But like, not my Lemmy or former reddit account(s), or Facebook (yes family, etc)...

I even have low value Gmail accts that I use for like... Testing scams or something.

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Testing scams

Any non-scams yet? Or is it safe to assume anything that looks like a scam, is one?

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Nah I've found plenty of non-scams. Like $1 VSTs on some random guys domain (used a visa gift card), stuff like that.

But yeah lots of scams.