A site literally called 'Spy.pet' claims to have scraped billions of public Discord messages and wants to sell them

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Ted has been thinking about PC games and bothering anyone who would listen with his thoughts on them ever since he booted up his sister's copy of Neverwinter Nights on the family computer. He is obsessed with all things CRPG and CRPG-adjacent, but has also covered esports, modding, and rare game collecting.

, a website called Spy.pet claims to have scraped billions of public Discord messages made by almost 620 million users, selling the individual messages and profiles for crypto.

Even with all our data already liable to be scrutinized by the government and sold by platform owners, there's a particular sense of violation at seeing it all packaged up and on sale to anyone like this, and Spy.pet's owner seems to take a certain glee in potential objections to the business: A"request removal" link on the site just leads to a .gif of JJ Jameson laughing in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man 2. I don't think J.K.

A crypto-fueled private sector surveillance and harassment machine is a lovely new nightmare of the 2020s, and I hope it gets shut down, but it's another valuable reminder not to treat Discord like it's private. What you say in a small, invite-only server with friends will probably stay there unless one of your friends shares it or reports a message to Discord's mod team, but to really be safe, chatting on Discord has to be seen as posting publicly on social media.

 

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