Discord

Batter secured, better voice quality. Better, just better.

The privacy policy of this service is atrocious. Not only does the company own your password, e-mail and the contents of every message you send, it also lays claim to the ownership of your sphincter. Furthermore, the Discord app demands to know EVERY program your computer is running!

Why?

So they can give a cute little status update saying "X is play Y game"? More likely they are doing analytics and datamining. They reserve the right to sell your data and the blood of your firstborn at their discretion. Even worse, your porn browsing habits and your accompanying personally identifying information they scoop up is never deleted. So if the company ever folds, they can just sell it for a mint and the next company will have more info about you than you do.

This is particularly alarming as the CEO of this company has a history of doing exactly the aforesaid.

In conclusion, if you use Discord you are a sucker and every company with an analytics contract, and therefore every employee of said company, will know you spend an unhealthy amount of time watching Japanese cartoons about little girls, waste your money on erotic VN's, and that you still don't know how to get past the sadpanda on exhentai despite trying since you were a teenager because you aren't particularly bright, which is why you're using discord after all.

Discord reserves itself the right to sell all your data, including everything you say, share or upload, to third parties. Read the terms of service before you use it!

Your information is not safe with this company. Staff and various 3rd party data mining organizations are monitoring everything that goes on on this platform., including all messages sent and voice calls made (possibly monitored in real time). Look up investors who have invested in discord in the past 2 years.

Discord is spyware because it collects all information that passes through its communication platform. As Discord is a centralized communication platform, all communications have to go through Discord's official servers, where all of that information can potentially be recorded. The vast majority of said information has been confirmed to be recorded, such as all communications between users. Discord has also been confirmed to use other spyware features such as various forms of telemetry. Discord's main source of income is from investment, from which it has received over $279.3 million dollars[4]. Discord cannot be built from source and the source code for Discord is unavailable.

Discord confirms that it collects large amounts of sensitive user data
Discord explicitly confirms in its privacy policy that it collects the following information:

• IP Address
• Device UUID
• User's e-mail address
• All text messages
• All images
• All VOIP data (voice chat)
• Open rates for e-mail sent by Discord

Discord does not explictly confirm that it collects this information, but still collects it by default:

• Logs of all of the other programs that are open on your computer (process logger)

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/discord.html

Not a very good product if you're a free speech absolutist, as they censor taboo art, and at one point tried to ban saying "kys".