Extremely creepy. Queued my account for deletion. Matrix it is.

  • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
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    6 months ago

    Is it only for people who have put none? Or is it overriding people’s preferences?

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      It’s a backend identification, likely used to target advertising in the future.

      They’re also tagging people with their suspected age bracket.

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      From the article, it seems like it isn’t overriding preferences if you have it set in the app. Looks like it’s an analytics thing in the backend at the moment. Of course, I wouldn’t put it past them to eventually require ID if your settings don’t match their prediction.

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      You don’t give your gender to Discord when signing up. It’s also nothing to do with the pronouns that you can set with the integrated app/bot, that only counts for the server you’re in