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<h2>Don't Use Discord</h2>
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2021 June 29
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<a href="/blog">The exozyme blog</a>
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<h3>Discord doesn't give a shit about your privacy</h3>
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Discord <a href="https://github.com/Jiiks/BetterDiscordApp/issues/952">forbids third-party clients</a>, <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=discord+ban+without+reason&ia=web">bans people for no reason and doesn't explain why</a>, shares everything with governments, and <a href="https://cadence.moe/blog/2020-06-06-why-you-shouldnt-trust-discord#business-model">sells off all your data to the highest bidder</a>. It has <b>no encryption at all</b>, <a href="https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360047118232-Add-support-for-end-to-end-encryption">not even badly implemented end-to-end encryption</a> like WhatsApp. Everything about the app and servers are closed source and proprietary. That just exacerbates its <a href="https://cadence.moe/blog/2020-06-06-why-you-shouldnt-trust-discord#security-issues">already-bad security issues</a>.
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<b>It collects a very large amount of data about you</b>, including your IP address, all your messages including "private" ones, all your voice chat data, and <a href="https://teddit.net/r/privacy/comments/eiicah/trawling_through_my_discord_data_package_after_35/">even information about other apps on your system</a> if you use the desktop client. <a href="https://discord.com/privacy">Discord's privacy policy</a> contains multiple occurrences of phrases such as "including but not limited to," which explicitly confirms that <b>Discord's privacy situation is even worse than we currently know.</b>
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Best of all, <b>you can even pay them to violate your privacy!</b> What fun!
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<h3>So what now?</h3>
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There are many great alternatives available, such as <a href="https://matrix.org/">Matrix</a>. You can even <a href="matrix.org/bridges/">bridge</a>>a your Discord account to your Matrix account, although this clearly violates Discord's Terms of Service. <b>Literally any chat app, other than Zoom, has better privacy than Discord.</b>
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If you <i>must</i> use Discord, please do so in your browser, preferably in a private or incognito window. Treat everything you do on Discord as if it is public, including your "private" messages. <b>Do not download the spyware desktop or mobile apps at all costs!</b>
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<h3>Sources and further reading</h3>
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<a href="https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/discord.html">Discord — Spyware Watchdog</a>
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<a href="https://stallman.org/discord.html">Reasons not to use Discord</a>
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<a href="https://archive.is/Q4N9J">Friends Don't Let Friends Use Discord - The Mega-Discussion : privacy</a>
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<a href="https://cadence.moe/blog/2020-06-06-why-you-shouldnt-trust-discord">Why you shouldn't trust Discord | Cadence's Blog</a>
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<a href="https://austinhuang.me/discord-issues">My view on the Issues of Discord | Austin Huang</a>
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<a href="https://teddit.net/r/discordapp/comments/debr97/open_letter_to_discord/">Open letter to Discord : discordapp</a>
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