Comment on Discord Shuts Down ‘Spy Pet’ Bots That Scraped, Sold User Messages

• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • zeluko@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah and discord is allowing it. Thats all i am saying.
        Of course Restorecord is doing it on purpose. There are some valid reasons, but maybe Discord shouldt allow untrusted bot-developers like them to do so.

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