Apparently we can’t have a civil discussion here without arrogant assholes inserting themselves into the conversation so they can gaslight us. This has become as bad as reddit.

If you want to discuss the problems with discord, then take it to tumblr, I guess.

I’m done here. Peace to most of you who were nice, and to the few who weren’t, I hope I never see you around again. Bye.

  • huginn@feddit.it
    28·
    9 months ago

    This was enabled because you enabled it. Nobody else is experiencing this my guy.

    If you didn’t give it permission it can’t read contacts. That’s an explicit permission request on both iOS and Android: You can’t just scrape someone’s contacts.

      • huginn@feddit.it
        9·
        9 months ago

        There are 2 possibilities:

        UI bug or you’ve given it access to your contacts. There are 0 other possibilities.

        • kattenluik@feddit.nl
          4·
          9 months ago

          You know a weirdly large amount about something you can’t possibly know about or have sources for.

          • huginn@feddit.it
            19·
            9 months ago

            This is my job. I’m a staff level software engineer who previously worked at Google. My entire career has been writing Android apps.

            Permissions are integral to phone app development and contacts is a specific permission that is heavily locked down.

            So yes: I can possibly know and I have literally read the source code.

            Unless you’re trying to insist that Discord developed a new 0 day that lets them bypass both Android and iOS operating system locks and then decided to use it to scrape contacts while giving you an option to turn it off?

            Cause if that’s your supposition you’ve got a bad case of magical thinking.

              • Squiddles@beehaw.orgEnglish
                12·
                9 months ago

                Access to Contacts has to go through the Android API, which means the user has to explicitly grant permission for Discord to access that specific functionality. That’s what the comment you’re replying to meant: access to contacts is protected at the operating system level and they’ve seen the source code on the OS side. Permissions might have been granted by the user reflexively, just muscle memory, when setting up Discord, but it absolutely had to have happened if Sync Contacts was enabled. Unless there’s some kind of bug where Discord enables the in-app setting without actually having the permissions to access contacts–I guess that could be possible. It couldn’t actually see any contact info in that instance, but it would try. If I go into Discord settings and try to enable the Sync Contacts option my phone displays the built-in Android permissions prompt with the text “Allow Discord to access your contacts?”

                • HarkMahlberg@kbin.social
                  6·
                  9 months ago

                  Thanks for the reply. I wouldn’t have thought they meant Android source code but that makes sense lol. Also this is the kind of reply I think OP would have appreciated more than just someone saying “you’re wrong, you must have done something wrong.”

                • Melody Fwygon@beehaw.org
                  3·
                  9 months ago

                  Unless there’s some kind of bug where Discord enables the in-app setting without actually having the permissions to access contacts

                  That’s the bug exactly. It’s kind of a UI glitch; but I found out through Samsung bungling my permissions preferences through a One UI (OTA System) update, that it actually does enable the in-app setting by accident and that this is going to access your contacts if the permission is presently GRANTED, but not throw up a prompt asking for permission if the permission is already DENIED.