Remember you can trust Discord with your driver’s license for verification, I’m sure they won’t accidentally store them in a plain text open API call or anything.

  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Not necessarily. Developers choose what permissions their authorization token has when they register it with Discord. In this case the game asked for an auth token with all permissions, so the game connects to Discord with the same access levels as your actual login.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah that’s what the person before me said. I’m saying that the fact it’s possible at all is a horrible violation of privacy