30 captchas just because you're browsing via Tor, a VPN, or a proxy?
How is that remotely acceptable?
There really should be some kind of law against ludicrous shit like that.
People will say "Discord is a private service and nobody's forcing you to use it" but reality is not as black and white as that.
For example, what if your employer invites you to a meeting using a privacy-abusing service like Discord or Google Hangouts? Are you going to risk telling your employer that you're not joining an important meeting because you don't want to use a service without your VPN? What if some important club/charity/etc. has its members in a Discord group?
These services blur the lines between private enterprise and social utility. Like Facebook, services offering "mass interaction" or whatever should be subject to much stronger privacy laws.
I hate to break it to you: You don't have privacy on the internet.
If Discord was chosen by your employer, running on employer-provided laptops, yes, you need to use it.
You can certainly call out their questionable ToS to your IT department.
It's not a public "social utility". It is a service run by a private company with their specific ToS.
I'm getting so frustrated about people not understanding that YOU ARE THE PRODUCT - in many cases like Discord.
You will be monitored, your clicks will be recorded,
heck you have NO guarantee that the Open Source version they might have is the code RUNNING on their servers.
Even if a company claims they can't read your messages or never will: You can't trust it. Ever.
> Are you going to risk telling your employer that you're not joining an important meeting because you don't want to use a service without your VPN? What if some important club/charity/etc. has its members in a Discord group?
I'm not going to risk losing my employment, but I'm going to tell them I have a problem using the service without a VPN. If they are willing to fire you for raising privacy concerns then you should have concerns over the culture. Plus most companies I've worked for always want the VPN connected when you are off their network.
How is that remotely acceptable?
There really should be some kind of law against ludicrous shit like that.
People will say "Discord is a private service and nobody's forcing you to use it" but reality is not as black and white as that.
For example, what if your employer invites you to a meeting using a privacy-abusing service like Discord or Google Hangouts? Are you going to risk telling your employer that you're not joining an important meeting because you don't want to use a service without your VPN? What if some important club/charity/etc. has its members in a Discord group?
These services blur the lines between private enterprise and social utility. Like Facebook, services offering "mass interaction" or whatever should be subject to much stronger privacy laws.
The current state of things can't continue.