I’m sure there are perfectly valid reasons for them to take full control of our discord accounts and this won’t be abused.
I’m just disappointed that people are still on Discord after all their global age verification crap.
They never asked me to verify, so it doesn’t seem mandatory
They profiled you based on your activity and algorithmically decided you probably weren’t a kid
Yeah, so nothing changed for me.
Same aura as: “I’m white so they wount do anything to me”
Huh, I don’t see the equivalence. Discord won’t do what to me? They are mining my data as much as anyone elses.
What age verification? I haven’t needed to verify my age. I heard the news but it seems that’s its optional.
Good luck getting people to move
Hasn’t happened to me yet do i don’t care
It likely already has, IIRC they assume age based on message content and account history, even if you haven’t explicitly given them a birthdate
I did also use that command in the browser that claimed to autoverify you for the age check.
Damn, if they’re going to get all that up into my account the least they could do is bake me a cake. The nerve.
Man…
When Discord tightens the screws, it is going to be pain in a lot of communities.
Like, technically these permissions make sense now, but some day they will bite users in the butt.
bake a cake
“we’re so quirky guys!!!1!1!!!1!!”
Same vibe
at least the cake isn’t a lie this time
Til battle.net still exists and didn’t die with wc3.
It’s… The base app for all blizzard games, ofc it exists. I hate blizzard as much as the next guy but wow, the Diablo ripoffs, hearthstone and all the other crap is in there.
At this point why won’t they just create an AI that mimics me across multiple social media platforms? If they’re stealing my data they should at least do the honors of posting for me
i actually exported my discord messages last year to do this for myself locally but it was too much effort
Why are some of them duplicated?
the scrolling screenshot function on my phone is… imperfect
Not enough cake
Gotta water down the TOS list to the point where reading it will take a year. /s
Discord malware needs fewer permissions than this /s
Just wait until battle[.]net gets pwded
I’m happy not using blizzard or other Microsoft products.
I bet they’ll try to buy discord soon.
Internet 3 is growing hungry.
Imagine continuing to play Blizzard games after all they’ve done. Some gamers really are cucks for nostalgia
Youre getting downvoted but Blizzard really has gone into the shitter since… Uhh… Wrath of the Lich King? Maybe like 2 weeks into Overwatch?
mods help i’m being cyberbullied :(
honestly I see only reasonable requests (plus selling your data if you didn’t check that off). These look all like needed features to interact with friends between battle net and discord, they’re a lot because discord made them “granular”
Oh, yeah, permission to manage a person’s friends list in Discord and even block them is a totally “reasonable request”.
/s
Guess how they can allow you to do that from battle net
And with those permissions they can also do it themselves whenever they see fit from their systems without asking you about it or informing you about it.
Mind you, the really juicy stuff that can be used to make money from is all the information about anything and everything you might be doing in Discord which can be sold to, amongst others, advertisers, rather than the active management stuff.
Somebody in Blizzard activelly decided that merelly letting you post in and read posts from Discord via Battle.Net wasn’t enough and it’s pretty valid to wonder if the decision path was “let’s do a full Discord client in Battle.Net to make it even better for our customers and for that we need permissions for just about everything in Discord” or “let’s get access to information about just about everything our customers do in Discord and we need to make a full Discord client in Battle.net to justify that”.
I know that the answer I would bet on 2 decades ago before the enshittification era isn’t the same I would bet on now.
You can just not connect the two.
If you’re connecting them I suppose you want to use discord through battle net, so these permissions are needed.
- friends stuff to invite and chat with your friends
- server stuff to invite your discord friends
- profile stuff so they can show it to your discord friends while on battlenet
As for the advertising stuff, go through discord and battle net and disable everything you can. BattleNet is not selling anything discord isn’t already selling.
Can you do all of those on a battle net account? I would, in good faith, presume the plan is for the battle net app to act as a pseudo discord app and let you control everything on your discord account through it.
PS: I searched very hard for that good faith.
Edit: Know what? Discord ain’t exactly known for its ethical behaviour, so fuck em.
Right? This is Mussolini trying to get admin permissions on the third Reich. I don’t have a dog in this one.
The intent is almost strictly for WoW, discord is advertising that it’s to allow for merging of WoW clan chat and discord messages, I would assume via the discord client which is why it asks for so many intents. Screw that regardless though.
presume the plan is for the battle net app to act as a pseudo discord app and let you control everything on your discord account through it.
Yeah, to me that sounds like what’s going on. They’re trying to implement a Discord client within their game, and to really do that successfully, it needs permissions to do all the Discord things.
Some of these permissions I didn’t even think was a possibility for discord integrations, holy cow.
I really just wanted a cake, but I guess that’s the one thing it can’t do.
I would do anything for battle dot net, but I won’t do that
