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Discord messages could become discoverable on the web, raising questions about privacy, public conversations, and how search engines access online communities.

In this video, we discuss reports about Discord making messages discoverable through web searches, what this could mean for server owners and members, and whether conversations could appear in Google and other search engines.

Could this change how people use Discord? And what happens to privacy when online discussions become easier to find?

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Transcript
00:00all right so i want to bring this to your notice that uh discord is going to be making messages
00:06in discord servers discoverable in the past this used to be messages this used to be private
00:13messages sent to discord servers and whenever you send messages obviously it's a message
00:18so it's not supposed to appear or be searchable on the web but right now discord is making this
00:24public and it means that whenever people search for your chats or your name the messages you have
00:31on discord server can also appear on the web which means every search engine will be able to crawl
00:36all those uh discord messages you send to um different servers and appear just like you see
00:44on this uh information although the official information was actually made by discord on
00:51tick on x and uh information just include that only the messages sent to server not your dm messages
00:59not the message you send to individual but the message you send to servers which is something
01:03like a group they are going to be discoverable on web but then there is actually a way to opt
01:09out
01:09you can easily opt out but even though you can easily opt out the main issue is that on default
01:15this particular feature is going to be enabled so for so many people that do not know about this
01:21the feature is going to be active on your account and you can disable that by going over to the
01:26settings and doing the following settings but i'm not going to show you guys exactly how to do it i'm
01:30going to teach you on a different video so i just want to make this awareness video so i hope
01:35it helped
01:35see you on the next one
01:37you
01:37you

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