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Tyler Wilde

Discord's new Clips feature elicits privacy fears, but we'd actually have more privacy if everyone used it

Discord best settings and tips.

Discord's experimental new Clips feature, which has been rolling out since last year, lets users who are streaming in a voice channel capture up to two-minute-long clips of their streams. It's a nice little feature addition that has accidentally become mildly controversial.

The fear is privacy. On social media, some posters have sounded the alarm over Clips' ability to record the voices of the other users in a channel aside from the streamer, urging their followers to opt out in Discord's settings—there's a toggle which omits your voice from Clips. Multiple Facebook posts I've seen declare that Discord now records your voice without your knowledge, and one said they couldn't think of any legitimate use for the feature.

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