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I've never had any of those issues on the desktop or phone app, and they're not spyware by any but the most overreaching definition.

andai 5y ago
Ahh, apparently the part where it scans every process you have open can be disabled in privacy, it's checked locally against a known list of games and the data is never uploaded [0]. (But it still quits if you try to block the connection?) Still, the very principle is not something I am comfortable with. [1] [0] Why is Discord recording our open programs and uploading them? - https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/43lqyb/why_is_discord_recording_our_open_programs_and/ https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/43lqyb/why_is_d... [1] Wacom Tablets track every app you open - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22247292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22247292
- junon 5y ago
  Then don't use Discord. It's a gaming chat that is intended to be used while gaming as a primary goal of their service. There are a wide variety of reasons to be critical of discord (many of them having little to do directly with Discord in particular) but the way they go about process scanning is unintrusive and pretty typical of similar apps, such as Steam, which is actually way more intrusive in some cases due to VAC.
- jodrellblank 5y ago
  Discord is a social media gaming program, it tracks what games you're playing so it can prompt your friends to join you in the game. It's not an Office Slack replacement which is also spyware, it's a gaming chat which grew out into being used by FOSS projects partly because it's so good cross-platform and partly because of IRC's gradual decline. You can see it happening in the always-on user list on the side which shows people are "Playing $Game" in their status. It also changes your status, visible in the client, I think. Wacom tablets are a local computer input device. They have no business tracking or uploading anything in normal use, and you have no expectation or way to notice that it's happening. All of your chat is sent to, and archived by, Discord, forever. That's annoying but server-central-not-encrypted-chat is their product. If I found all of my Discord chat messsages were being copied and uploaded to Wacom and archived forever, by a Wacom driver/app, I'd be incensed.

andai 5y ago

Ahh, apparently the part where it scans every process you have open can be disabled in privacy, it's checked locally against a known list of games and the data is never uploaded [0]. (But it still quits if you try to block the connection?) Still, the very principle is not something I am comfortable with. [1] [0] Why is Discord recording our open programs and uploading them? - https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/43lqyb/why_is_discord_recording_our_open_programs_and/ https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/43lqyb/why_is_d... [1] Wacom Tablets track every app you open - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22247292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22247292

junon 5y ago
Then don't use Discord. It's a gaming chat that is intended to be used while gaming as a primary goal of their service. There are a wide variety of reasons to be critical of discord (many of them having little to do directly with Discord in particular) but the way they go about process scanning is unintrusive and pretty typical of similar apps, such as Steam, which is actually way more intrusive in some cases due to VAC.
jodrellblank 5y ago
Discord is a social media gaming program, it tracks what games you're playing so it can prompt your friends to join you in the game. It's not an Office Slack replacement which is also spyware, it's a gaming chat which grew out into being used by FOSS projects partly because it's so good cross-platform and partly because of IRC's gradual decline. You can see it happening in the always-on user list on the side which shows people are "Playing $Game" in their status. It also changes your status, visible in the client, I think. Wacom tablets are a local computer input device. They have no business tracking or uploading anything in normal use, and you have no expectation or way to notice that it's happening. All of your chat is sent to, and archived by, Discord, forever. That's annoying but server-central-not-encrypted-chat is their product. If I found all of my Discord chat messsages were being copied and uploaded to Wacom and archived forever, by a Wacom driver/app, I'd be incensed.