Comment on Why don't Steam or Discord offer the option to hide when we're typing?
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 3 weeks ago
It heralds from Jabber, for when you wanted to indicate to peers that your responding in chat about something. However it is Machiavellian social engineering (2×🔗) meant to decipher your stylometry, which data analyst brokers (2×🔗) corporations like pisscorp and valve enjoy to exploit.
A technique I used to use for when I used פיסכורפ was to use a text editor to type out my message, then copy&paste. Now I just use slidcord at my convenience, and will use a scraper&archiver soon™ to export stuff in communities I want to maliciously extrapolate. 🖕 Network Effected folks. Aint scanlating on JASRAC friendly snitches.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s kind of impressive that you managed to squeeze in so many links to references but without including any that actually back up the accusation you’re making.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 3 weeks ago
For Valve, or Pisscorp? Unless you mean Leviathan Scans.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, I mean the completely unfounded claim that discord’s typing indicators are somehow a tool for analysing users’ writing styles and selling that on to data brokers.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Ah, you don’t read Terms of Service.