[Madmallard]

Something I don't quite understand about this Discord fiasco.

Every single thing you ever put into discord via text or voice has already and was already being sold to advertisers. If you were ever logged into Google simultaneously while on Discord it's already linked up to the real information they have about you.

I've just seen numerous things I've talked about or typed about with friends promptly appear on my YouTube feeds.

So like.. ?

[a2128]

1. Citation needed. Why would Google be secretly ingesting all of your Discord messages and be using it for... YouTube recommendations? Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is a more likely explanation

2. Already collecting a lot of data is not a reason to collect even more sensitive data. Plenty of people use Discord differently than you do. Anonymously participating in projects that use Discord and never saying anything personal over it, for example. This would possibly remove the ability to do so, for example if Discord's secretive AI decided that an LGBTQ+ project's Discord should be age restricted, and you would be forced to submit enough information to be fully identified and deanonymized, and now some foreign government could build a database that includes your full identity and your affiliation to such project

[OutOfHere]

Advertisers versus law enforcement... they're entirely separate concerns. The former cannot lock you up; the latter can.

[kgwxd]

So like what? There's clearly a difference. The new thing is worse, and stacks with the already bad stuff. So like... fiasco.