Clearing Data on a Discord Server that I Was Banned from

Onscreen5341:

Discord isn’t interested on your data, discord is interested making money with you and your data (you are the product).

That’s what I meant yes, written more accurately.

Onscreen5341:

but you didn’t delete the data, are pretty high.

Yes and no. Not everybody goes all the way to double-check in-depth. I don’t see any EU 3rd party company hired by the government doing some deep OPS into Discord’s servers trying to find out where are the hidden messages. Nobody has the time for that nor the money.

Moreover, if it’s never found out, the company won’t even need to pay the fee. Worst part? Even if they are found out, it’s not like the fees will be 50% of their turn over.

I cannot find out the xkcd but it goes like this

1. we’re doing this shady thing with our end users’ data, is it legal?
2. no, but nobody will find out
3. even if they do, it’s just part of the budget for this feature anyway

It’s not about if, but of a when. Weekly news leak more and more bad practices from non-caring companies, assume they don’t care. If they’re caught, they’ll just pay the few million $ penalty while still making billion $ on yearly basis. Hell, even legal fees/court stuff is >1% of those and are still part of every Big Tech company cashflow.

TLDR: let’s not be naive and think that a regulation is a silver bullet. There are entire full time paid squads to get around those “legal slowdowns”.

Onscreen5341:

business major’s perspective it is not profitable to lie.

Almost forgot this one. Sometimes technical debt is a good enough reason. Moreover, you need workforce to redo things the right way. Meanwhile, you could just go illegal and still make far more money than the penalty fee (if you’re caught the hand in the bag).

I come fresh from this book, got an entire grid of those shady practices just lined up waiting to defeat your previous message. Not like I was surprised, but reading the details as of how they do that was quite enlightening for sure.

Onscreen5341:

Another matter would be to make it as hard as possible and as long as possible to delete data.

Same here, no normie has the time, money and resources to be bothered by that nonsense with all the services they’re using.