Comment on Discord Shuts Down ‘Spy Pet’ Bots That Scraped, Sold User Messages
Donut@leminal.space 6 months agoYou can’t get a Discord user’s IP address in the app itself as every interaction is proxied through Discord’s backend first.
People do click on sketchy links and hand over their IP though, and Discord can’t do much about those situations
zeluko@kbin.social 6 months ago
Discord bots were able to get a users IP via the verification system afaik.
Donut@leminal.space 6 months ago
Look at the update comment to that video. The bot creator did it on purpose. Nothing to do with Discord’s verification system.
zeluko@kbin.social 6 months ago
afaik thats rather about the parallel service someone had selling the data for a subscription and getting that data from restorecord's database.
In the video it is already suspected restorecord is in on it, and the update comment proves it.
Donut@leminal.space 6 months ago
Yes, when you go to their site and do the verification, they were able to link your IP to your discord username via their backend. This is done outside of the Discord API.