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Their client is terrible. You can't prevent it from snooping on your processes without putting it in a sandbox.

I use web only, block every access to things and customize it with Firefox builtin custom CSS. It will put me in an idle state when I'm not interacting with it compared to a desktop client that knows when I move my mouse.

same. but I get the feeling that the era of services like that available in the browser is near its end. 10-20 years, and their website will only have links to 'get our app'

> I use web only

Which is intentionally garbage to use. I'm with the GP, pop it into an unprivileged LXD container and stop dealing with their corp snooping nonsense.

?? It's entirely identical to the desktop version. Desktop is just an electron wrapper that adds fancy integration like rich presence and in-game overlays and whatever else.

I use both the web and the desktop version depending on what I'm doing and I'd say they are identical except for a few features that obviously cannot work on the web (eg global keybinds for push-to-talk).

lol.

This brings me to a different pet peeve of mine. Discord is really opaque in a way that it handles activity status, it doesn't show you what status it thinks you are (i.e it can show you as Online but Away or Mobile to others). Which is very annoying when working with others.

For times when I work off my iPad, I use a vnc and xdotool to press a button every few seconds on my PC (not in Discord though, don't want to get banned). That is the only way I found to make sure it shows me as Online and not breaks their T&C.

i'd just use the web client for discord.

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