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This just in: proprietary app is proprietary. How is this at all surprising? Any non-open source program can do everything you just listen and more. Discord ma
by identity0 6y ago
This just in: proprietary app is proprietary.
How is this at all surprising? Any non-open source program can do everything you just listen and more. Discord may have been dumb for naming their analytics request point "/track" but that doesn't make them worse than anyone else. I wouldn't be surprised if Word sent every button press to Microsoft. And besides, all the chat data is stored on their servers anyways, so it's not like they get a whole bunch of new data through this.
- TonyTrapp 6y agoFor what it's worth: Any open-source program can do that as well. Telemetry isn't unheard of outside of proprietary software.
- superkuh 6y agoWell, you have to read past my first sentence. It's a list of things not a thesis statement. Together they make Discord notably bad compared to even other proprietary software. Especially since unlike MS Word where people pay money for the product Discord's product is the user. But in particular the problem is that it's web crap and it pulls down it's code every time you run it. And now with the websocket backdoor it doesn't even have to do that. This is very different from a compiled program. It's not surprising but it is also not acceptable. I chose not to use it and encourage others to avoid it.
- identity0 6y ago> Especially since unlike MS Word where people pay money for the product Discord's product is the user I wish people would stop touting this. Just because you pay for it doesn't mean you aren't being tracked. I would say MS Word is considerably worse because you have to pay for it and it still tracks you.