I've yet to see artists migrate here. The artists started on DA, Newgrounds, YT, Tumblr, etc. The professionals moved to Twitter.
Reddit started from geek & tech culture, not creatives. Its ability to foster discussion extended well to not just techies but to everyone. Most creatives I've seen shy away from Reddit.
/r/thereisnocat
this reads somewhere between Neil Cicirega lyrics and Clerks dialogue
I seem to be in the minority, but I've never had issues with it resetting my default browser.
Well you and I will get along swell cuz I don't turn mine off!
I've always wished there was a higher quality version of this.
They're not doing that. They have different ways of tracking you and don't need to listen to your real-life conversations, because they all (hopefully) know that if they were caught doing that, people would actually (hopefully) be upset enough to demand reform.
Take for example your location data. Is Google storing your location data? Yes. Are they selling it? I doubt it. Instead, big companies at one point were able to track your movement within stores by using your bluetooth beacon address. IDK if that's still possible, but that's more in line with the way these things pan out. Also keep in mind some companies have incentives to keep data to themselves, usually when said company peddles ads themselves. You're still being tracked and are the victim of targeted advertisement, but your data is more siloed than you think.
Reminder that confirmation bias can be really hard to see around. It's literally one recommendation. About a submarine. Which you probably didn't talk about for very long. And is something you can't buy or have a choice in supporting. Let's be real, Discord and YT as corporations have little interest in furthering the Military Industrial Complex, and anybody who says otherwise better have solid evidence.
As for the other comment, I don't see a source that says anything about Discord selling conversational data directly to advertisers. Discord is certainly not a privacy-focused application, but it's not in their best interest to sell your conversations directly like that.
As for what they put in their TOS, it's pretty standard fare. Almost all user-generated content services will have clauses like that so that they don't get sued, because they're hosting your data. (reminder: this is not legal advice.)
The clearest forms in which you will be advertised to are when you search for products, or visit sites with trackers. But even then, your data isn't necessarily being sold. Google, for instance, is generally not in the business of selling data to other advertisers, because they themselves are an ad business and having their own data gives them a competitive advantage. I tell you this to help you understand why companies are motivated to track you. Youtube, quite frankly, doesn't give a crap. For YT ads, expect to receive personalized ads, but for video recommendations, it's far easier for them to just do it based off of other stuff you've watched and what other people are watching. I'd be surprised if their algorithm uses external tracking data, because why would they? They have all they need in-house.
If you and your friend really care about privacy and never want to worry about this again, you've got a lot of work to do. Stop using Chrome/chromium/blink/webkit. Use Firefox or one of its more privacy-focused cousins. Disable Javascript on as many sites as possible. Have as few accounts as possible, and delete your Google/AMZN/FB/reddit/YT etc. Use Tor or a VPN to prevent IP-based tracking. Make sure your DNS is 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8, or better yet, AdGuard DNS. And of course, stop using Discord or any cloud-hosted software. Teamspeak, IRC, and Signal/Matrix are good alternatives. Also shoutout to Quassel for a semi self-hosted IRC setup.
Facebook does not come on their unlocked phones. I've set up my S8 and S23, as well as Note 9 and Note 22 for family and none of them came with bloatware aside from Samsung's apps. However I got a used Galaxy tablet on AT&T and it had so much crap on it. At least it's removable using ADB.
I went from a Pebble Time to a Garmin Forerunner. Amazing battery life (2 weeks vs 5 days). But the software on the now defunct Pebble was massively superior. Sleep tracking on the Garmin sucks despite it having many more sensors. The Pebble pretty much always recognized short naps, and was pretty accurate with sleep/wake times.
The Garmin's UI is also dogcrap. For example, if you get a text, it first pops up with the name of who's texting you. You have to wait two seconds before the actual text shows up. If someone texts you again, the name pops up. You kinda have to wait for the other person to stop sending texts to be able to read anything.
I wish we could have Pebble's software in the body of a Forerunner. Sadly Fitbit bought Pebble and subsequently threw it in the trash.
Ooh does it light up? What is that unpopulated spot for?