Billions of public Discord messages may be sold through a scraping service


by Ars Technica

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Neowin—Spy Pet, accused of scraping billions of public messages, taken down by Discord. Discord has shut down Spy Pet website, accused of scraping and selling billions of messages of almost Discord users for crypto. Associated accounts connected to the site have also been banned.

Ars Technica—Message-scraping, user-tracking service Spy Pet shut down by Discord. Bot-driven service was also connected to targeted harassment site Kiwi Farms.

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