I would also say the same about the Discord as an app - their founder is known for founding and later ditching another similar app "OpenFeint" (OpenFeint - Wikipedia)
And Discord does raise some concern: Discord: Why the messaging app is under scrutiny – DW – 10/11/2024 - an interesting article to read
I mean - since many people still are careful about what Canonical does based off of history - then in that case I'd be double as cautious with Discord if I decided to use it ever again
Also - in regards to the Web service of main topic - I think it may be something in your browser setting - I know I had some minor issues when I was using older Mint versions where some sites with white background would turn blue and so on - try out a different browser and see if the errors repeat or if you don't have any more errors
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If I select the GPT option it errors out on me. That's the issue I keep having.
https://youtu.be/gFXZ3yyia3I
As seen in the YouTube video with the console displaying.
As for the other issues. Honestly I'm not crazy about the company at all at this point. The only reason I'm even bothering is because there's a contest and I'm hoping to submit an entry.
See: Contest link
I've been making stuff with AI and editing it together for a while now so I thought this would be easy enough but of course you're required to use their tools as part of the contest rules. So here we are.
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I have no idea how that would work since I have multiple other tabs open and Discord running and other stuff going that continue to run in the web browser.
I just think that the stuff is poorly put together.
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It's a typical issue when VPN blocked.
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For those who did sign up to try this app; there has been a data breach and information has been exposed (as I predicted).
I only signed up to check if it worked on Linux, so I had only provided an email alias. Lucky me!
They ignored multiple requests to delete the account - so that reinforced my belief that this wasn't a safe place to sign up to.
The other red flags for me were:
- no contact information (other than via social media),
- no privacy policy on the website,
- no company registration details (e.g EIN, VAT, ABN, etc),
- deliberate obscurity (e.g. the WHOIS result for the website) that hides who provides the service.
Those are all things you can check for before you hand over any information to a service.
If you're ever really excited and rushing through a sign up process, you can always pause and take a moment to check some of those things. You can choose to take the risk anyway, but it's better to make that decision with a cooler head.
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I am sincerely sorry this happened.
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Thanks - and you're not to blame, I made sure to keep myself as safe as possible.
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