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bogwog ◴[] No.29703823[source]
> Hi! My name is WVDUMP. I am Leaking the CDM to burn it & punish few idiots that think themselves as dicord lords :smile:

Why do so many people doing illegal/shady shit online use Discord? You might as well be using Facebook at the point.

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agilob ◴[] No.29703946[source]
Before Discord they were using IRC which was printing your IP address (or reverse DNS) when joining a channel.
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1. bogwog ◴[] No.29704057[source]
At least with IRC you can use a VPN and self host a server.

Discord can, and is highly incentivized to, identify and track you across the internet.

Idk if they do this, but it shouldn’t be that hard in this day and age to build a profile on users based on messages and activity. That can be cross referenced with other sources of data to identify you, especially if it’s done manually by like an FBI agent or whatever.