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Discord is making public chats searchable on Google: How to opt out
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Discord conversations on large public servers will soon reach audiences far beyond their communities, raising privacy concerns.
Key facts
- Cointelegraph found nearly 800 servers tagged “cryptocurrency,” around 1,400 tagged “trading” and more than 700 tagged “finance” in Discord’s public directory
- From Nov. 16, every Discoverable Server will have a web page that may include summaries of public channel discussions
- The change applies to Discoverable Servers, communities with at least 1,000 members listed in Discord’s public directory that do not require an invitation to join
- Discord said the feature will be disabled by default for users in Australia, the EU, the European Economic Area, the UK, Canada, Brazil and South Korea
Summary
Discord is making a policy change that will make conversations from its largest public servers discoverable in search engines, including Google, raising privacy concerns among users whose conversations were previously confined to the platform. The change applies to Discoverable Servers, communities with at least 1,000 members listed in Discord’s public directory that do not require an invitation to join. From Nov. 16, every Discoverable Server will have a web page that may include summaries of public channel discussions. Discord said the shift of online communities from message boards to its servers had made useful answers harder to find.