Discord vs Spotify
Based on our analysis, Discord is the more privacy-respecting choice overall.
BACK →| Category | Discord | Spotify |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | C+ · 58/100 | C · 52/100 |
| What they collect | Mixed (52) | Concern (38) |
| Who they share it with | Mixed (55) | Concern (40) |
| What you can do | Positive (72) | Mixed (68) |
| What they promise | Positive (65) | Mixed (57) |
Discord collects your messages, activity, device data, and behavioural signals, and uses them for personalisation and sponsored content targeting — but it doesn't sell your data, encrypts voice and video end-to-end, and gives you genuine in-app controls over most processing. The biggest risks are public server content being used to train AI systems and third-party bots operating largely outside Discord's privacy guarantees.
View full analysis →Spotify tracks everything you listen to, infers your interests from your behaviour, and feeds that data into a broad advertising machine — including third-party ad partners who send them data about you too. Controls are better than most, but your listening history is kept for the life of your account with no way to stop it.
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