I am still new regarding privacy and all that, so i am sorry for any mistakes/ newbie questions.
I and my friends were talking on Discord regarding the Oxenfree plot (a game about a time loop). One of the plot points mentions a submarine. To his surprise, He received a youtube recommendation about a nuclear-powered submarine as shown:
he was a bit spooked about this and asked if Google is listening. I asked about his browser and extensions, to which he answered that he's using google chrome and the extensions below:
my question is: how did this happen, and what should he do next to avoid this happening again?
thank you in advance.
Pasted from a 5 year old archived reddit thread
You Should Know: Discord is spyware, and logs and sells everything you do / run on your computer for profit. Discord's main source of income comes from selling collected data
Discord contains a process logger
Discord receives government requests for your information
Discord contains features which allow integration with other spyware platforms
Discord confirms that it collects large amounts of sensitive user data
Discord does not make its source code available
Discord explicitly confirms in its privacy policy[1] that it collects the following information:
IP Address
Device UUID
User's e-mail address
All text messages
All images
All VOIP data (voice chat)
Open rates for e-mail sent by Discord
*All of this information is literally embedded within their TOS, but more info on a free hosted website here, with citations:
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/discord.html
That website is absolute garbage. Not to mention, the reddit thread it cites regarding program logging has a dev response confirming that program usage history isn't uploaded, disproving it's own point: https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/43lqyb/why_is_discord_recording_our_open_programs_and/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=2&utm_content=2
That website doesn't look trustworthy at all to me, so I went off reading discord Privacy Policy which stated the following:
"We generally do not store the contents of video or voice calls or channels. If we were to change that in the future (for example, to facilitate content moderation), we would disclose that to you in advance. We also don’t store streaming content when you share your screen, but we do retain the thumbnail cover image for the stream for a short period of time."
Take that as you will.