After reading this page. I'm probably not going to use Discord anymore. I knew it glowed in the dark, but I never thought it glowed that much. By some of what I read on that site it's basically like having a virus running on your system just having the client open. The following is a quote from the page that concerned me:
"Discord has been confirmed to monitor the open processes on your operating system. This is a spyware feature known as a "process logger" that is generally used to record your program usage habits. This was confirmed by the CTO of Discord in a Reddit thread.[2] In the same thread, the CTO also elaborates that this spyware feature (the monitoring of processes) is mandatory for several features of the platform. The CTO and a Discord engineer go on to claim that Discord does not use the process logger to send records of the open processes on the user's computer.
The test to prove that Discord logs processes was done again by the writer with procmon on 4/11/2019 with the features: "Use data to customize my Discord Experience" and "Display currently running game as a status message" turned off. Discord did NOT log all of the processes open this way. However, when setting the "Display currently running game as a status message" turned on, the behavior described in[2] was replicated. You can see that behavior here:"
Even though I dont care much for privacy(I use Google services), that just creeps me out. That's beyond what I'm willing to tolerate anymore.
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