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If you don't want any information of yourself being used in any way, then unfortunately that simply isn't possible currently unless you do not use the internet or a cell phone.
Do you even have any idea what Cassandra is, or what that blog post is saying? They are not "reading everything in your browser" -- they are storing the messages people post in Discord so that people who join later can read the archives. This is part of the intended functionality of the service. It's not some sort of deep conspiracy or sinister plot. If they did not store it, there would be no archive. This is exactly the same as Slack, Microsoft Teams, and any other number of group chat web services. You might say "I don't want there to be an archive! Chat should be real-time and ephemeral!" but archive/search functionality is very useful and is one of the reasons these services exist in the first place. You need a way to store and manage that sort of "big data," and that's exactly what Cassandra is for. The fact that Discord is a centrally-hosted web service that doesn't require someone to install and manage a server is also part of the intended design for the service, and a big part of its usefulness. Again, you may not trust a company with this data, and feel better about some standalone server operator, but that model brings its own limitations, challenges, and security concerns.
This is false. They are not sharing EXIF data at all. People are uploading images that contain EXIF geolocation data in it, and they don't realize it's there until someone else in the chat points it out to them. If you upload an image in Teamspeak with EXIF data, it will be "shared" that way too -- it's in the original image. People in the thread you linked were suggesting that Discord should forcefully alter the files people were uploading to remove this data to protect people from themselves.
This is false. Being browser-based doesn't give a website automatic access to all your browser history; this website can't access your browser history and you're accessing it in a browser.
This is false. Use of Cassandra to store messages does not prove they sell your data, or even that they monitor it. It is necessary to store this data for the intended functionality of the service.
I'm all for people being aware of how the services they use work, and keeping their privacy in mind. Yes, you take a risk with any web service that hosts your data, and you have to understand that if you're not paying for a product, you are the product. People have every right to choose to not trust companies like Discord. But at the same time, your posts are not being reasonable; they're full of lies, false accusations, and innuendo.
The GREE incident was actually quite obvious. GREE found that OpenFeint is not as useful as it should be in providing funds and scrapped it. I am quite sure data is transferred, but let's be honest here, we are talking about big data here. The most practical way to use this data is to see trends in marketing and the possible course of action business-wise. Have you actually used OpenFeint before? I have. The possible data that could be sent is at worst your UDID on your device. What can they actually do with that data to affect you in any way? I am rather glad that OpenFeint closed down because the service by itself didn't make sense.
On a corporate scale, there is absolutely nothing they want with your personal data. And most privacy laws (at least in the United States as well as the country I am in) deem the transferring of information to anyone outside the acquisition of property being illegal. So yes they can sell your data for all you know, but at the end of the day nothing really changes, unless you have broken the biggest mistake of revealing anything too personal online.
Stuff like EXIV and stuff are known for ages. It has been a common mistake in applications who don't mask their images, but rather just hosts the data. Sure some privacy such as the removal of EXIV data could be done (honestly in a large scale application like this, it is plausible but not a very important change due to use case). And most of the complaints have been made by similarly paranoid people about privacy issues. And as a developer myself I feel like the vast majority of them have been misinformed about the actual privacy issue when reality that most of the time it isn't a problem provided that the developers themselves put measures to ensure your data is in safe hands. And I am very sure the devs of Discord don't want a third case happening lol.
But for that you have to buy a server and not anyone can afford a server for TeamSpeak3 so we turned our head to Discord which is free
If you're so concerned with data about you not being shared then you have to find a way to stop your government from getting it in the first place and doing as they please with it, because they abuse our data the most and sometimes to ruin the lives of innocent people.
Remember, governments have been lying and breaking rules for ages, and they are rewarded for doing so. Citizens do not pay the politicians, private businesses do.
THEN STOP COMPLAINING ! You have nothing to do with this ! You keep using TS3 while we use Discord. Again it's OUR decisions not yours think about this for a sec