Message-scraping, user-tracking service Spy Pet shut down by Discord
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/message-scraping-user-tracking-service-spy-pet-shut-down-by-discord/
Spy Pet, a service that sold access to a rich database of allegedly more than 3 billion Discord messages and details on more than 600 million users, has seemingly been shut down.
404 Media, which broke the story of Spy Pet's offerings, reports that Spy Pet seems mostly shut down. Spy Pet's website was unavailable as of this writing. A Discord spokesperson told Ars that the company's safety team had been "diligently investigating" Spy Pet and that it had banned accounts affiliated with it.