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GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Microsoft for Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers — daily gameplay leaks shatter cloud of secrecy around the much-hyped game (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 71 points 2 months ago (10 children)

I'll echo what most others say here: stop using discord and everything microsoft.

And maybe also reconsider if modern gaming is a worthwhile passtime.

Look, I love a good game as much as the next person. But with everything that is coming to light lately I can't shake the feeling that I want as little digital backdoors for their tentacles around. Because they are harvesting data all over the place.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    i went and set up my own hosted team speak server. tried to get my discord group of 12 people to switch over during the whole discord bullshit.

    i did all the work and hosted it myself

    guess how many switched over even just initially?

    did you guess zero? because it was zero. “yea we are upset at discord, but if we are loud about not being happy they will change!” the real answer is ‘ i hope they change because i don’t want to be slightly inconvenienced’

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    I hear you (figuratively speaking, because I don't use voice chat for gaming). My answer would be to quit.

    Now I know that's a bit extreme for some. We all have our things that we're willing to give up or not. (Outside of gaming also).

    I for example have a hard time getting people of whatsapp (pos meta spyware that it is). But keep at it, some changes take time. However, as extremer this world gets, the more people will open their eyes and take steps.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Modern tripple A games are shitty 9 times out of 10, and remaining good ones are way overpriced. But gaming is on all time rise, the amount of incredible games around, made by passionate and talented people are staggering. Indy is where it's at!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Indie games are good, but if privacy is a concern be careful of any game developed in a big engine like unity. My firewall pings a warning every time I launch a unity game because they all send analytics data back to unity. If it's single player and you block all outgoing connections by default, you're fine though.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    True, but to be quite honest, I'm not that paranoid. The unity analytics I don't care about, they can have that. I wouldn't like it if they were doing something beyound checking out how their engine works, but I don't think that's happening yet (although I might be mistaken)

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    i want to stop using discord, but some important people to me refuse to leave it and its my good point of contact/talking with them, sadly.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    This right here. I am in a LDR with my partner and we only use discord to talk. I have tried moving us to another platform but she doesn't understand the big deal.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (2 children)

    i wish my situation was that understandable, for me the other side is mostly just "I have nothing to hide, why should I care and upend everything because of it??" and the fact there is no real viable alternative that gives you even most of the stuff that discord does.

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