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Discord moving to face ID

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  • @jcn said:
    In other news, "Discord advises UK users that they "may be part of an experiment" where instead of their age verification data never leaving their phone, it will now actually leave their phone"

    https://www.eurogamer.net/discord-advises-uk-users-that-they-may-be-part-of-an-experiment-where-instead-of-their-age-verification-data-never-leaving-their-phone-it-will-now-actually-leave-their-phone

    Wow, being on the bleeding edge of hi-tech biometric experiments!
    Noice, innit?!

    @dbadude said:
    Clearly honeypot technology like all 'free' big tec. Your data is their income.

    @default said:
    I have requested the deletion of my Discord account.

    Fun fact: they won't delete my account; instead they'll wait for me to login for 14 days, in case I change my mind.

    @3K33 said:
    If i remember correctly, even after 14 days, whole data deletion takes 30 days (by deletion, it means anonymization). Everything you ever posted on Discord stays there.

    "Meta was granted a patent in late December that outlines how a large language model can "simulate" a person's social media activity, such as responding to content posted by real people."

    "The language model may be used for simulating the user when the user is absent from the social networking system, for example, when the user takes a long break or if the user is deceased," the patent says.

    "Meta would essentially create a digital clone of your social media presence, training a model on "user-specific" data — including historical platform activity, such as comments, likes, or content — to understand how you would (or rather, did) behave."

    "That clone can then respond to other people's content by liking and commenting, or responding to DMs."

    https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-granted-patent-for-ai-llm-bot-dead-paused-accounts-2026-2

    @rpqu said:

    @Guru555 said:

    @DataRecovery said:

    @Andreix said:
    Meh... sticking with telegram for now...

    This.

    Switch to Telegram. The best messenger these days (and probably ever).
    Not ultra-private, most anonymous (requires a phone number), etc., but by far the most convenient and feature-packed.

    Numerous phone clients, most are open-source.

    Desktop client is awesome and a native app (no Electron!).
    Fully theme-able and customizable. Even better than Skype in its golden days.
    Also open-source with a few forks.

    @nikio said:
    Discord wanted my ID to continue writing bots for them. I told them to fuck off

    You don't need any special verification to create Telegram bots.

    One of the top Telegram features actually. Multiple SDKs to choose from.
    Or just use Python / PHP / bash.

    Yes, you can receive unlimited notifications from your VPS free of charge and without installing anything (just cURL).

    You can purchase an anonymous number on Fragment using TON

    Yeah, have seen that feature, but it's a bit unclear to me.
    Your TG account is tied to the phone number. Unsure what's necessary to own that virtual number forever.

    Otherwise you'll either have to link another number to your acc-t, or a new owner will be able to "reset" your account in a week or two and create a new one instead.

    You're supposed to add two-step verification password. Then, they can't use your account

    Yes, they won't be able to use your account without knowing the PIN.

    But I meant a bit different scenario - when you drop the number and it is eventually sold to another person.
    The new owner will be able to create a new account for that number, and yours will be deleted in 7 or 14 days (don't recall) unless you link it to some other phone num.

  • ralfralf Member

    @jcn said:
    In other news, "Discord advises UK users that they "may be part of an experiment" where instead of their age verification data never leaving their phone, it will now actually leave their phone"

    https://www.eurogamer.net/discord-advises-uk-users-that-they-may-be-part-of-an-experiment-where-instead-of-their-age-verification-data-never-leaving-their-phone-it-will-now-actually-leave-their-phone

    Just because that's paywalled for me (in the UK): https://archive.is/FFWXQ

    Thanked by 2forest jcn
  • ralfralf Member

    @3K33 said:

    @default said:
    I have requested the deletion of my Discord account.

    Fun fact: they won't delete my account; instead they'll wait for me to login for 14 days, in case I change my mind.

    If i remember correctly, even after 14 days, whole data deletion takes 30 days (by deletion, it means anonymization). Everything you ever posted on Discord stays there.

    You could potentially open them up to a lot of liability by posting PII (e.g. phone number with no context) as a message, and then requesting they delete all data about you. If that PII still remains then they are very much in breach of GDPR.

  • @DataRecovery said:

    @jcn said:
    In other news, "Discord advises UK users that they "may be part of an experiment" where instead of their age verification data never leaving their phone, it will now actually leave their phone"

    https://www.eurogamer.net/discord-advises-uk-users-that-they-may-be-part-of-an-experiment-where-instead-of-their-age-verification-data-never-leaving-their-phone-it-will-now-actually-leave-their-phone

    Wow, being on the bleeding edge of hi-tech biometric experiments!
    Noice, innit?!

    @dbadude said:
    Clearly honeypot technology like all 'free' big tec. Your data is their income.

    @default said:
    I have requested the deletion of my Discord account.

    Fun fact: they won't delete my account; instead they'll wait for me to login for 14 days, in case I change my mind.

    @3K33 said:
    If i remember correctly, even after 14 days, whole data deletion takes 30 days (by deletion, it means anonymization). Everything you ever posted on Discord stays there.

    "Meta was granted a patent in late December that outlines how a large language model can "simulate" a person's social media activity, such as responding to content posted by real people."

    "The language model may be used for simulating the user when the user is absent from the social networking system, for example, when the user takes a long break or if the user is deceased," the patent says.

    "Meta would essentially create a digital clone of your social media presence, training a model on "user-specific" data — including historical platform activity, such as comments, likes, or content — to understand how you would (or rather, did) behave."

    "That clone can then respond to other people's content by liking and commenting, or responding to DMs."

    https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-granted-patent-for-ai-llm-bot-dead-paused-accounts-2026-2

    @rpqu said:

    @Guru555 said:

    @DataRecovery said:

    @Andreix said:
    Meh... sticking with telegram for now...

    This.

    Switch to Telegram. The best messenger these days (and probably ever).
    Not ultra-private, most anonymous (requires a phone number), etc., but by far the most convenient and feature-packed.

    Numerous phone clients, most are open-source.

    Desktop client is awesome and a native app (no Electron!).
    Fully theme-able and customizable. Even better than Skype in its golden days.
    Also open-source with a few forks.

    @nikio said:
    Discord wanted my ID to continue writing bots for them. I told them to fuck off

    You don't need any special verification to create Telegram bots.

    One of the top Telegram features actually. Multiple SDKs to choose from.
    Or just use Python / PHP / bash.

    Yes, you can receive unlimited notifications from your VPS free of charge and without installing anything (just cURL).

    You can purchase an anonymous number on Fragment using TON

    Yeah, have seen that feature, but it's a bit unclear to me.
    Your TG account is tied to the phone number. Unsure what's necessary to own that virtual number forever.

    Otherwise you'll either have to link another number to your acc-t, or a new owner will be able to "reset" your account in a week or two and create a new one instead.

    You're supposed to add two-step verification password. Then, they can't use your account

    Yes, they won't be able to use your account without knowing the PIN.

    But I meant a bit different scenario - when you drop the number and it is eventually sold to another person.
    The new owner will be able to create a new account for that number, and yours will be deleted in 7 or 14 days (don't recall) unless you link it to some other phone num.

    Meta has clearly lost connection with the world. The only business case they have 'for this patent' is to trick the advertisers to think they have 'real' visitors while their whole platform is cancelled because of so much synthetic ai slob is bugging real visitors of their platforms.

    Thanked by 1DataRecovery
  • 3K333K33 Member, Host Rep

    @ralf said:

    @3K33 said:

    @default said:
    I have requested the deletion of my Discord account.

    Fun fact: they won't delete my account; instead they'll wait for me to login for 14 days, in case I change my mind.

    If i remember correctly, even after 14 days, whole data deletion takes 30 days (by deletion, it means anonymization). Everything you ever posted on Discord stays there.

    You could potentially open them up to a lot of liability by posting PII (e.g. phone number with no context) as a message, and then requesting they delete all data about you. If that PII still remains then they are very much in breach of GDPR.

    Yes, seems like this is possible. Last time I asked in like 2022, they said no, and to give them singular messages that actually include PII, but removing everything was no-no.

    As far as I remember, data from this kind of messages are their main source of income. Discord functions as one big database, but I can be wrong, I don't remember where i heard this.

  • @DataRecovery said: "Meta was granted a patent in late December that outlines how a large language model can "simulate" a person's social media activity, such as responding to content posted by real people."

    Time to start dropping slurs I guess. Also, AI trained on my post isn't authentic if it doesn't bully people for using traefik instead of nginx or berate them for using web UIs and exposing docker socket to containers.

    Thanked by 2DataRecovery forest
  • lots of fun tweets about it, pretty sure its easy to bypass but bs yeah

  • edited February 15

    @jcn said:
    In other news, "Discord advises UK users that they "may be part of an experiment" where instead of their age verification data never leaving their phone, it will now actually leave their phone"

    https://www.eurogamer.net/discord-advises-uk-users-that-they-may-be-part-of-an-experiment-where-instead-of-their-age-verification-data-never-leaving-their-phone-it-will-now-actually-leave-their-phone

    I'm glad they made that the actual title of the article instead of bullshitting around it.

    @ralf said:

    You could potentially open them up to a lot of liability by posting PII (e.g. phone number with no context) as a message, and then requesting they delete all data about you. If that PII still remains then they are very much in breach of GDPR.

    Courts aren't stupid. They'd only have to delete it if you told them where it was.

    Thanked by 1forest
  • zedzed Member
    edited February 17

    Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed By Mass Exodus Of Players Fleeing Age-Verification Crackdown

    https://kotaku.com/discord-alternative-teamspeak-age-verification-check-rivals-2000669693

  • @zed said:

    Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed By Mass Exodus Of Players Fleeing Age-Verification Crackdown

    https://kotaku.com/discord-alternative-teamspeak-age-verification-check-rivals-2000669693

    So it's back to Teamspeak. Awesome! I loved Teamspeak and its simplicity.

    Thanked by 2rpqu forest
  • @zed said:

    Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed By Mass Exodus Of Players Fleeing Age-Verification Crackdown

    https://kotaku.com/discord-alternative-teamspeak-age-verification-check-rivals-2000669693

    Ironically, if recent Teamspeak versions were actually decentralized and fully self-hostable, then they would not be maxed out at capacity. They should have made it without mandatory central accounts & services :pensive:

    Thanked by 1rpqu
  • @default said:

    @lichade said:
    https://discordomicon.github.io/removal/overview/

    if you care about your privacy and data, i suggest taking a look at https://discuss.privacyguides.net/, its been very helpful for me

    Thank you very much. I reactivated my account and requested all my messages. Let's see how this goes after I request removal.

    After one week of waiting in ticket, Discord's support finally replied.

    Hi there,

    Thank you for your patience.

    This is your confirmation email that we have successfully submitted the message IDs that you have provided for deletion. Please allow up to 24 hours for the deletion process to be completed. After 24 hours, you can confirm that your messages are deleted by requesting your data package here.

    Please note that some messages may not be deleted due to the following reasons:

    • Messages located in spaces that you still have access to will not be deleted.
    • Messages that were sent by another user will not be deleted.
    • Messages with invalid or incorrect message/channel IDs will not be processed.

    If you still have access to certain spaces, you can manually delete your own messages by right-clicking on the message and selecting "Delete Message," or by hovering over the message, clicking the "..." or "more" menu, and choosing "Delete Message." Holding the Shift key while clicking the delete icon will bypass the confirmation screen for faster deletion.

    For more information on how you can delete messages directly from inside the app, please check out this Help Center Article.

    We appreciate your understanding in this matter.

    Sincerely,
    Discord Privacy Team

    Thanked by 1WyvernCo
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