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Internet-scraping outfit Spy.pet claims to have harvested more than four billion public messages made by nearly 620 million users on more than 14,000 Discord chat servers – and is selling access to this trove.

The website presents the data it's collected in several ways. Each known user has a profile, which contains all known aliases, pronouns, connected accounts to other platforms such as Steam and GitHub, Discord servers joined, and public messages. If you wanted to quite literally spy on a Discord user or users, Spy.pet lets you do that, for a fee.

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[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is against the law, and not unlike a ransomware attack in severity and legality. Someone should go to jail over this.

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

It's not free, they ask you to buy credits. I didn't buy any so don't know how much they cost, but just mentioning to make this clear.

I assume anyone who's set their profile to private without sharing apps, external links, etc, and only go to private servers wouldn't have much to worry about against this scenario?

this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2024
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