If you were in a public Discord any time over the past decade, you weren’t just chatting with your friends—you were ...

As Cox notes, Discord doesn't make messages inside server channels ... But as an indication of the reach of Spy Pet's scraping, it's an effective warning, or enticement, depending on your goals.

They then randomly selected 10% of those servers for scraping. The research team ... no one is going to be happy about their Discord messages being stored in a public file online,' said 404 ...

If you use Discord, beware: Your activity—in both public messages and voice channels ... reporting that an online service called Spy Pet was scraping over 10,000 servers throughout Discord.

Spy.pet, which extracts over 4 billion messages from Discord and sells ... Spy.pet was reportedly scraping 14,000 Discord servers at one point, but this number had dropped to zero by April 25.