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wobblegong
@wobblegong

User SettingsClips → toggle it off...

Per the FAQ "Clips" is a way to Shadowplay-style record a clip from a Discord stream. On its face not the worst feature they've implemented in the last week1 but uhhhh hey guys why did you default to letting people record me without even letting me know they COULD record me?


[EDIT] to add cool and helpful further sleuthing from @CrillWave: apparently Clips has existed for awhile now but as of this chost's creation is exclusive to Nitro+ users (not to be confused with Nitro Classic users, who also do not have access to it). If you don't have Nitro+ and haven't encountered it in the wild, this random mystery option defaulting to "yes I am cool with being recorded" might be how you find out about it. But it doesn't give any context for what Clips is or how it works (I had to independently find the linked FAQ) so all you get is a mystery "I love being recorded" toggle and no further info. 👍🏽


wooby
@wooby

oh this has been around for months now! it sucks, i've made a few posts about it. the "allow my voice to be recorded in clips" toggle is new to me though, that's at least one step towards better privacy options around this. there still seems to be no way to disallow clipping per-server or per-channel though, suuucks.


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in reply to @wobblegong's post:

I wonder how much of this is the notifications for it just not working rather than deliberate lack of warning - I get a popup every time I join a Discord stream telling me "hey, someone here has clips enabled so they can record your voice if the setting is enabled"
Still not good for that to not be happening for everyone but "deliberately didn't tell people" and "program is jank and just doesn't inform everyone properly" are different levels of suck at least.

Yeah, it should preferably be Not Default On too - best option IMO would be that instead of a small "hey heads up about this" when you first join a stream with it enabled, instead have a big "HEY CHOOSE WHICH OPTION U WANT" when you first join a stream with it on instead. That way people are aware of the setting AND opt in to it.

You only get the notification if you enter a voice chat where someone has clipping enabled. You probably did not get the notification because no one on your calls has enabled capturing Clips, which requires Nitro and is Windows-only (and opt-in or opt-out depending on your hardware specs).

this feels very fear-mongery imho.
clipping has been an in client feature for months and even tells you if someone has it enabled so ... ??

i mean it's nice you can turn it off but idk could just be the way I'm reading the post

Hello stranger! If you think this post's tone is bad, I strongly recommend authoring an informational chost that better strikes the balance you'd like, either as a rechost or as a standalone to go into the #discord tag! (I have an audience of approximately five chosties; if my PSA has reached anyone it's purely via the power of that one single tag. Any chost you make should do just as well!)

If you want to provide more info, or counter my claims, or inform people in a manner you think they should be informed in: that's a great impulse, go author a chost! I promise you'll reach and persuade manymanymany more people that way.

it is a legal requirement* in most states w/in US and in many countries for recording to be off by default and opt-in for all parties being recorded. this is principally a consequence of wiretapping laws in two party consent states. yes, it kills the use case for this feature, but that's the law: in most places you can't be recorded without your explicit consent

(*specifics are slightly more complicated and may vary from state to state / country to country, but this is the gist. this is why, for example, when someone starts recording in Google Meet, it blares a deafening This meeting is being recorded. and gives you the option to leave)