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• Chobbes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Or maybe… How is discord any worse of a privacy nightmare than IRC? I love me some IRC, but it ain’t exactly a bastion of secrecy.

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  • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    IRC clients don’t have loads of telemetry like Discord does. And IRC is a protocol instead of a platform, so there isn’t a single set of servers hosting and logging ALL conversations.

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    • Chobbes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s fair, but IRC also tends to leak information about users to everybody. They’re maybe bad or slightly different ways, but frankly if you care about privacy that much you probably shouldn’t use either, at least not with additional protections.

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      • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        IRC doesn’t even see that much info about each user to begin with, especially compared to Discord, and if you’re talking about public IPs - hiding them from other users is now a common thing on servers.

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• MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Closed source software without end to end encryption and has access to all chats, voice and video calls. How can it not be a privacy nightmare. You have no idea what they collect and what they don’t.

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  • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t they claim that they can’t access your chat logs unless they get like reports and stuff?

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    • lemmingtree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I doubt that. If you do a gdpr request for your data, you’ll see how much they log about your activities. Obviously chats and VC activity, but also all the timestamps of what you play, session data over all time, etc.

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      • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They told me it was encrypted unless you got reported

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