Aakash GuptaLead source
Starting in mid-December, messages you post in big public Discord servers will start showing up when somebody Googles them. Discord says it'll hide your username. Anybody can still find your name in about two searches, and it's embarrassingly easy. Your message shows up on Google word for word, labeled with the server it came from. Those servers don't need an invite to join. So someone copies your sentence, joins the server, pastes it into Discord's own search bar, and your name is sitting right there next to it. And if you're in the US, you're probably already opted in. Discord turned this setting off by default in exactly six places, the EU, the UK, Canada, Brazil, Australia and South Korea, and its explanation is local law. So the only people Discord bothered to ask first are the ones…Read original on X