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Ever since the Digital Services Act came into action, I've found both it and companies compliance to it very interesting.
Which is why I'm announcing my latest article, an explainer for the DSA using Discord as an example!
blog.pnly.io/digital-service…
Seeing all the big twitter accounts post about double counter several days after I did is incredibly funny and far from the first time it's happened.
My posts have also been ripped verbatim by them before.
I run so they can walk (and farm engagement revenue) I guess.
The Discord Bot, Double Counter, suffered a data breach & near complete takeover last week.
They were not complying with GDPR, and got caught with data they shouldn't have.
I wonder if Discord will take this illegal behaviour seriously, hard to feel bad for the developers here.
In their statement, they minimised. It's important to note that in the event of a data breach GDPR requires a clear list of affected data and direct notifications to affected users (usually emails).
Not the first time a bot has been caught doing this, likely won't be the last.
They released slash commands literally 5 years ago by the way, but here's a list of reasons why they're better than prefix commands:
- prefix commands require the message content intent, giving bots access to unessential, potentially sensitive, data (all messages)
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why tf is @discord removing prefix commands...
i hate using slash commands genuinely.























