Comment on Why don't Steam or Discord offer the option to hide when we're typing?
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 10 months ago
It heralds from Jabber, for when you wanted to indicate to peers that your responding in chat about something. However it is Machiavellian social engineering (2×🔗) meant to decipher your stylometry, which data analyst brokers (2×🔗) corporations like pisscorp and valve enjoy to exploit.
A technique I used to use for when I used פיסכורפ was to use a text editor to type out my message, then copy&paste. Now I just use slidcord at my convenience, and will use a scraper&archiver soon™ to export stuff in communities I want to maliciously extrapolate. 🖕 Network Effected folks. Aint scanlating on JASRAC friendly snitches.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s kind of impressive that you managed to squeeze in so many links to references but without including any that actually back up the accusation you’re making.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 10 months ago
For Valve, or Pisscorp? Unless you mean Leviathan Scans.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No, I mean the completely unfounded claim that discord’s typing indicators are somehow a tool for analysing users’ writing styles and selling that on to data brokers.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 10 months ago
Ah, you don’t read Terms of Service.