[bluecalm]

I mean, every user of that channel can do that as well. It's just that there shouldn't be expectation of privacy on a Discord channel unless you know and trust every participant.

Message reading bots are very useful for many things. Limiting them because of privacy concerns sounds like a loss for no gain to me. There isn't any privacy on Discord to begin with.

[tayiorrobinson]

+ AFAIK Discord said they aren't going to completely remove message access, just lock it behind a privilileged intent. What's stopping malicious developers from adding features such as bad link detection, chat activity leveling system, thus giving them a reason to say to Discord, hey, we need message access, and then using the message access for these malicious reasons.