404 Media tested the service, called Spy Pet, and verified it is collecting information on Discord users, including the messages they post across usually disparate servers.

An online service is scraping Discord servers en masse, archiving and tracking users’ messages and activity across servers including what voice channels they join, and then selling access to that data for as little as $5. Called Spy Pet, the service’s creator says it scrapes more than ten thousand Discord servers, and besides selling access to anyone with cryptocurrency, is also offering the data for training AI models or to assist law enforcement agencies, according to its website.

  • P03 LockeEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Internet Archive is also doing this with web pages, sooo…

    Try again, 404 Journalism Not Found.

  • @[email protected]
    7•1 year ago

    Oh no, public is public. Don’t post stuff on the internet you don’t want to be saved and possibly indexed forever.

  • Gravitywell
    19•1 year ago

    So like… Public messages they posed on public servers are being published…and a company other than discord is profiting from this? Oh no! I better be careful what I post on discord… Next thing you know they’ll start selling Lemmy data too.