Correct. You could use GDPR regulations to have them remove all your information once the account’s gone.
And then over time frame they are required to forget about you.
But they are never ever ever going to forget a phone number, they will call it a security matter and keep it for anti-fraud purposes. I believe that’s allowed.
Basically once your personal information is associated with a online account it is tainted. And if you are worried about your personal information being attached to an account you can no longer use that account because it is in fact tainted forever
that’s weird. I just opened discord and deleted my phone number without any issues, just had to type password and 2fa and done. I did it in the android app btw.
Vlyn@lemmy.world
on 04 Aug 2023 09:00
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If you want to use Discord nowadays you need a valid phone number, that’s it.
Either you agree with it and use their service, or you don’t and delete your account with all your data.
They use this to battle spam accounts (with quite some success, been over a year since I’ve been contacted by scammers), there is no good way around it.
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Are you from the EU? If so, just threaten them with reporting them to the GDPR people
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That’s really helpful, thanks.
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You could delete the account.
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Even if you change the phone number they’re going to keep a record of your previous numbers.
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Correct. You could use GDPR regulations to have them remove all your information once the account’s gone.
And then over time frame they are required to forget about you.
But they are never ever ever going to forget a phone number, they will call it a security matter and keep it for anti-fraud purposes. I believe that’s allowed.
Basically once your personal information is associated with a online account it is tainted. And if you are worried about your personal information being attached to an account you can no longer use that account because it is in fact tainted forever
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that’s weird. I just opened discord and deleted my phone number without any issues, just had to type password and 2fa and done. I did it in the android app btw.
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If you want to use Discord nowadays you need a valid phone number, that’s it.
Either you agree with it and use their service, or you don’t and delete your account with all your data.
They use this to battle spam accounts (with quite some success, been over a year since I’ve been contacted by scammers), there is no good way around it.
No you don’t. I can use it just fine without a phone number added.
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Discord is the worst, matrix is not the best but way better than discord
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Can you change it in a non existing number.
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