Ideal for your cop, AI startup, or estranged lover.
The information on what it claims to be 600 million users of Discord is being sold by a data scraping firm. 404 Media has published a report that provides information on Spy Pet, an online service that collects, saves, and sells vast amounts of information from social media platforms. Be not afraid, however: The company promotes its services to clients who are completely trustworthy and pay for them, such as law enforcement, AI model trainers, or the common individual who is curious about “what their friends are up to.” Should you bother asking them when you can just buy a copy of their Discord activity and save it to your computer?
Spy Pet gives you the ability to obtain information about specific people for as little as five dollars in cryptocurrency. This information includes the servers that the user participates in, the messages that they have sent, and the times that they joined or left voice channels. Additionally, it asserts that it possesses information on an estimated 600 million users across 14,000 Discord servers and three billion messages simultaneously.
Spy Pet’s designer said that it is a classic example of doing what one enjoys and pushing personal boundaries. This is the case when it comes to the inspiration behind the game. As the developer said to 404 Media, “I enjoy scraping, archiving, and challenging myself at the same time.” “Discord is basically the holy grail of scraping, as Discord is trying absolutely everything to combat scraping,” said the user.
Some people choose to participate in a 5K race, establish a goal to lose weight, or start playing pickleball. Some people launch a social scraping service that sells data to the government, artificial intelligence corporations, and creepy ex-partners. Each to their own devices!
It is said by 404 Media that the database allows you to search for particular users. There is a page that displays the servers that the user has joined (at least among those Spy Pet monitors), their linked accounts, a table that displays their recent messages (containing the server name, time stamps, and the message itself), and their voice channel entry and exit timings. This page is displayed for each search result. The chats of their target, also known as their “friends,” can be exported into a CSV file for the convenience of paying customers.
The company Discord has stated that it is looking into Spy Pet and considering its options. In an email sent to Newtechmania, a spokeswoman for the company stated, “Discord is committed to protecting the privacy and data of our users.” Currently, we are conducting an investigation into this problem. In the event that we discover that our Community Guidelines and Terms of Service have been violated, we will take the necessary actions to ensure that our rules are adhered to. Due to the fact that this is an ongoing investigation, we are unable to provide any additional remarks.