Comment on Battle.net's discord permissions
Godnroc@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I mean, it’s trying to integrate itself into Discord at a high level, so much so that you can see if a friend is online to send them an invite or message without needing to open the app.
The only odd thing is to join servers in your behalf, but if you wanted to join a server without opening Discord directly, wouldn’t it need that permission?
This doesn’t seem that egregious, and the long list is quite informative of exactly what it can do.
Yeah, why is this even mildly infuriating? If anything, it’s good to see transparency like this.
It’s not saying the program will do any of those things without your input. It’s just letting you know that your input in one program is using another programs data.
Doesn't rich presence already cover most of that without needing to handover this amount of perms to a third-party?
No, rich presence is some sort of status that any app can change and says “hey i am playing XYZ, i am in the lobby etc etc” can’t do anything else
On one hand, it could be useful with the likes of WoW to have a better chat app with guild servers and rooms. I think many players are already there. Blizz adapts to what is still hot.
But on the other, one’s personal discord account can hold a bit more value than an addon to BattleNet, it may have it’s secrets, even in the list of servers you joined, and it probably have friends not interested in that at all. I’d probably create a new acc if I need one for that purpose.
I am surprised Discord didn’t do something to sandbox Blizzard’s integration. Like creating a user who have access to these and those servers with these permissions. Probably they didn’t thought about that, but it could’ve made integrations more safe and viable.
Integrations can be made by anyone and discord moderate only abuses IIRC so they won’t bother with it and it’s probably in their interests too
Ava@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
Join servers on your behalf would be required to do something like “Join the World of Warcraft community server” or “join your guild’s Discord server” buttons. Theoretically permanent links could work here, but Discord has made permanent linking harder to do for legitimate reasons, and it wouldn’t work for smaller servers.
Email and third-party connections seem questionable. Why should Blizzard need to know my Discord account’s email?
Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
email would be to associate the account with an email. most services do this.