Way1: normal os install. Worst IMO Way2: webapp ( on linux mint you can create webapps, i assume its a profile specifically created in your browser of choice and only used for the 1 purpose, i.e. discord). I know firefox you can create separate profiles for this without using the ‘webapps’ app. Wa…

BetterDiscord and use adguard for trackers filtering

With apps like Discord I use Firefox with a container tab, but there is the possibility of of using a docker Discord image instead with Kasmweb – This implies that you selfhost it somewhere.

Can you even use discord in tor and does it have an onion link, it’s the most private that way, ik reddit and twitter has an onion site too.

It’s worth noting that no matter what you do, Discord is fundamentally a privacy nightmare. They collect literally every message sent, all media you send. Absolutely everything they possibly can. I’m saying that as a regular Discord user too as all of my friends use it for communication.

The messages are not e2ee even worse than WhatsApp even with FB.

I think the goal is to contain Discord’s tracking to only itself and not let it get more information on you than what you volunteer. Of course folks should know that anything you do on Discord is tracked by Discord.

BetterDiscord stripped a ton of tracking and the adguard blocks some of the discord apis.

I think the goal is to contain Discord’s tracking to only itself and not let it get more information on you than what you volunteer. I agee, this is the best you can hope for when using a privacy invasive/exploitive service. The only thing I would add to this is that when it is a messenger or soc…

ok folks, to wrap up. tldr opensource apps > webapp > flatpak > install no1 opensource install way ( if you have choice of foss apps i would look to how many contributers, which suggests more eyes on the code, as suppose to no contributors, and only 1 dude doing all the code) no2 webapps, can is…

I know, I’m 3 years late to the party, but critters like OpenSnitch (on Linux) and SimpleWall (on Windoze) I’ve found to be awesome help in catching and rejecting any telemetry or tracking stuff I don’t like. Both notify of any new outbound traffic from any app and allow you to allow or restrict bas…

Lets play pros and cons. Discord installed via 3 ways which is better for privacy?

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pine (🌲) July 25, 2026, 1:02pm 18

Agreed. Worth noting:

For Fedora-based distros, Trivalent is offered through their repo (though officially “unsupported”^[1]) alongside secureblue’s SELinux policy.

“Support” here refers to which systems Trivalent is tested against, i.e. only secureblue ↩︎

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