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\title{Sufyaan's Website}
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\author{Sufyaan's Website}
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\section[Delete Your Discord]{Delete Your Discord}\label{why-i-use-terminal-apps}
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\textbf{22 March 2023}
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\textbf{Category: }Software \& Guides
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As mentioned in the title, I have deleted my Discord account. This was
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obviously not without a reason. There are two reasons due to which I
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deleted my Discord account:
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Privacy
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Lack of Use
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The most prominent reason is privacy but lack of use compelled me to
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actually take the plunge and delete my Discord account.
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\hypertarget{privacy}{%
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\subsection[Privacy]{Privacy}\label{privacy}}
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\subsubsection{Introduction}\label{introduction}}
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Discord is a hellhole for your privacy. Avoid it at all costs. In this
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section, I will show you the various things that Discord tracks.
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\hypertarget{discords-history}{%
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\subsubsection{DISCORD\textquotesingle S
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HISTORY}\label{discords-history}}
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OpenFeint was a mobile social network for gaming. The Founder of
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OpenFeint was Jason Citron, the current CEO of Discord. OpenFeint
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received a class-action lawsuit for storing data like:
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Unique Device Identifiers
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Exact GPS Location
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Internet Browsing History
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Facebook and Twitter Profiles
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OpenFeint then revealed all of this data to any mobile game developer
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who asked for it and advertising networks.
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Well, if they collected all of this data, you must have agreed to it,
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right?
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No. The company never asked for your consent. This data collection
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involved over 100M mobile devices.
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\hypertarget{privacy-issues}{%
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\subsubsection{PRIVACY ISSUES}\label{privacy-issues}}
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So, when you have the CEO of a company that did all of this data
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collection become the CEO of another company, what do you think he is
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going to do? The answer is obvious. Of course he will do the same thing.
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Let us go over what privacy issues there currently are with Discord.
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\begin{enumerate}
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\textbf{All messages, including direct messages are unencrypted.}
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Do not share any sensitive information on it. It can be detrimental
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if you store a password on their servers as any Discord employee can
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view it.
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Do not be surprised if they log the amount of times you breathe
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while using Discord. It is stored with your User ID, an event ID, a
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timestamp and a detailed explanation of everything you do.
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\item
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\textbf{Discord collects information about game executables.}
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After scanning your game executables, Discord basically will have a
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tally of what games you play. If they are doing it for game
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executables, there is no doubt that they are doing it for other apps
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as well.
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\item
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\textbf{Government agencies, gather round!}
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Discord\textquotesingle s privacy policy states that your data will
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be given to any government organisation that asks for it.
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\textbf{The privacy toggles in the Discord app do nothing.}
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All they do is tell the server to delete the data as soon as it
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receives it. There is no verification, let alone an audit to verify
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this.
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\item
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\textbf{Your messages are with us... and everyone else.}
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When you delete your Discord account, your messages are still kept
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and your profile will simply be replaced by ``Deleted Account''. If
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you used Discord for even more than a few days to talk with friends,
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your messages are more than enough to deanonymize you.
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\textbf{Oh, and don\textquotesingle t do it yourself.}
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You will get banned for using tools to delete messages on Discord.
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\hypertarget{all-in-all...}{%
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\subsubsection{ALL IN ALL...}\label{all-in-all...}}
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... this is not all that Discord does. If we know that Discord does all
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of this, there is obviously more that they are doing that we do not
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know. You should always assume closed-source pieces of software are
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tracking you and sending your information to a third-party.
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\hypertarget{lack-of-use}{%
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\subsection[Lack of Use]{Lack of Use}\label{lack-of-use}}
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I was not using Discord anymore so I deleted it. The reason is that my
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previous account got banned for botting when I did not do anything. I
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made a new account, chatted with three or four of my friends.
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Afterwards, the CounterHawks Discord server got banned. Due to this, I
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realized there is no use for my account and that there is no reason for
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me to support Discord.
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\hypertarget{conclusion}{%
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\subsection[Conclusion]{Conclusion}\label{conclusion}}
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I do not use Discord anymore and probably never will. Previously, it was
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difficult to delete my Discord account but Discord themselves have done
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all the hard work for me.
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