After 404 Media reported on the service last week, Discord has now shut down a mass of scraping accounts and says it is considering legal action.

Discord banned a mass of accounts that were part of a service that scraped and sold user data, including messages posted across servers and what voice channels they joined, 404 Media has learned. The move comes after 404 Media reported on the service, called Spy Pet, last week and verified it was selling access to genuine user messages ripped from Discord servers.

Since then, and especially over the last several days, the number of servers that Spy Pet says it collects data from has fluctuated, dropping from around 14,000 to 12,000, before eventually on Thursday reaching zero. As of Friday, the Spy Pet website is also unavailable, and Discord says it is considering legal action against the site.

  • Cosmic ClericEnglish
    -3•7 months ago

    Because it’s embarrassing,

    I do what’s right, and not what may or may not embarrass me.

    I’m actually embarrassed that someone else would suggest not using a Creative Commons license to its full capability.

    there’s enough cringe here as it is

    Cringe is in the eye of the beholder.

    how am I supposed to say to people ‘hey come and try out lemmy’ when they’re gong to see this sovcit Facebook mom stuff?

    Just explain to them that Lemmy is a friendly and open place, where all different types of people with different opinions and ways of thinking can converse with each other freely, without fear of being harrased/insulted.

    Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)