I’m sure there are perfectly valid reasons for them to take full control of our discord accounts and this won’t be abused.
I’m just disappointed that people are still on Discord after all their global age verification crap.
Battle.net's discord permissions
Submitted 1 day ago by RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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dan1101@lemmy.world 1 day ago
dev_null@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
They never asked me to verify, so it doesn’t seem mamdatory
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Hasn’t happened to me yet do i don’t care
bagelberger@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It likely already has, IIRC they assume age based on message content and account history, even if you haven’t explicitly given them a birthdate
Dearth@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
What age verification? I haven’t needed to verify my age. I heard the news but it seems that’s its optional.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Good luck getting people to move
Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Some of these permissions I didn’t even think was a possibility for discord integrations, holy cow.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Man…
When Discord tightens the screws, it is going to be pain on a lot of communities.
Like, technically these permissions make sense, but some day this is going to bite users in the butt.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Damn, if they’re going to get all that up into my account the least they could do is bake me a cake. The nerve.
bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
bake a cake
“we’re so quirky guys!!!1!1!!!1!!”
Same vibe
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 16 hours ago
at least the cake isn’t a lie this time
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I really just wanted a cake, but I guess that’s the one thing it can’t do.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I would do anything for battle dot net, but I won’t do that
Chrglstr143@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
At this point why won’t they just create an AI that mimics me across multiple social media platforms? If they’re stealing my data they should at least do the honors of posting for me
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 16 hours ago
i actually exported my discord messages last year to do this for myself locally but it was too much effort
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why no cake.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Listen, Valve promised me a cake, and it turned out to be a lie.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Maybe this time [no cake] is the lie. I’m willing to bet a cake on the outcome
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Maybe this time [no cake] is the lie. I’m willing to bet a cake on the outcome
sudo@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
I actually really hate the bullshit fluff they add to the permissions request. It’s not cute, permissions should be concise and clear.
richardisaguy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What do you mean, this is to improve user experience!
DeLancre@piefed.social 1 day ago
“Improving user experience” would be to not use any of those two apps.
Godnroc@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
Ava@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day 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 1 day ago
email would be to associate the account with an email. most services do this.
too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
Chozo@fedia.io 1 day ago
Doesn't rich presence already cover most of that without needing to handover this amount of perms to a third-party?
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 day ago
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
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
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.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 day ago
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
hellothere@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Til battle.net still exists and didn’t die with wc3.
SleepyPie@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Imagine continuing to play Blizzard games after all they’ve done. Some gamers really are cucks for nostalgia
Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Youre getting downvoted but Blizzard really has gone into the shitter since… Uhh… Wrath of the Lich King? Maybe like 2 weeks into Overwatch?
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 1 day ago
mods help i’m being cyberbullied :(
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What are the third party connections? This could literally be anything.
Ava@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
IIRC this means that the Battle.net app would be able to see the details of a connected Twitch account, for example. I think I’ve seen this used in certain situations for things like account management apps or in a few servers that want to verify the identity of people, e.g. creator communities.
Bluedragon012@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Internet 3 is growing hungry.
GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io 1 day ago
honestly I see only reasonable requests (plus selling your data if you didn't check that off). These look all like needed features to interact with friends between battle net and discord, they're a lot because discord made them "granular"
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Oh, yeah, permission to manage a person’s friends list in Discord and even block them is a totally “reasonable request”.
/s
GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io 1 day ago
Guess how they can allow you to do that from battle net
ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Discord malware needs fewer permissions than this /s
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Just wait until battle[.]net gets pwded
pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why are some of them duplicated?
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 1 day ago
the scrolling screenshot function on my phone is… imperfect
cosmos8188@leminal.space 17 hours ago
Gotta water down the TOS list to the point where reading it will take a year. /s
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not enough cake
lath@piefed.social 1 day ago
Can you do all of those on a battle net account? I would, in good faith, presume the plan is for the battle net app to act as a pseudo discord app and let you control everything on your discord account through it.
PS: I searched very hard for that good faith.
PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.au 1 day ago
Right? This is Mussolini trying to get admin permissions on the third Reich. I don’t have a dog in this one.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The intent is almost strictly for WoW, discord is advertising that it’s to allow for merging of WoW clan chat and discord messages, I would assume via the discord client which is why it asks for so many intents. Screw that regardless though.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 day ago
Yeah, to me that sounds like what’s going on. They’re trying to implement a Discord client within their game, and to really do that successfully, it needs permissions to do all the Discord things.