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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.
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.
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.
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.
Complacency is the death of privacy.
A good argument I have here is that you also decide for everyone else that they don't have anything to hide