[klntsky]

I suggest you to remove the opt-out functionality and let it scrape private servers that it discovers via publicly posted invite links. You don't owe anyone posting on a public forum any privacy. Moreover, the most valuable data to search for is probably somewhat obscured.

[searchcord]

Hey,

Thanks for your suggestions. However, this does not work for a few reasons:

1. Joining servers is protected by increasingly difficult to solve captchas that have no commercially available solver. This is not a battle I want to fight.

2. There are a LOT of CSAM rings that spam invite links in public servers. This is also not something I want to go anywhere near.

Moreover, after the fallout of spy.pet, I think it is very important that users are able to opt out.

[squigz]

It is arguably more important that the world doesn't lose as much information as Discord now contains, or leave it gated behind logins and captchas and whatever other nonsense each server implements.