Hello, recently, the Roblox client “Sober” has been requesting more permissions since the latest update.
- Screen content
- Personal subfolder of execution app/com.discord.Discord
- Personal subfolder of execution discord-ipc-0
Does this seem suspicious to you?
(I’m not taking into account Roblox’s privacy policy, which is bad, just the Sober client)
my guess is the screen content permission is for roblox’s crappy builtin video recorder and the folders for discord rich presence
It’s asking for the ability to take screenshots, which is definitely suspicious unless there’s an in-app screenshot feature, and for the ability to launch discord and interact with it. The thing is it’ll be interacting using your discord account, I expect. That means it’ll be able to see your conversations and all the servers you’re in. It’ll also be able to post as you. Again, that’s the sort of thing which is very suspicious unless there’s some way in the app to have conversations over discord for some reason (maybe a bug report button, or a social feature).
Basically, I’d consider both of these alarming but not necessarily evidence that they’re spying on you to collect personal data or training data for an AI
Is it possible to deny the permissions and see whether anything breaks?
Is it flatpak? If yes (I would say it is given it is asking for permissions), then you can install Flatseal which manages permissions for every app separately 🙂
In principle, yes. It depends on your Linux distribution though, I’m not familiar with the one you’re using
There is an in app screenshot tool and a sreen recorder tool too in roblox.
It’s nice that we have a working Roblox Linux client but I’ll just ignore it until it’s open sourced.
I saw this as well. I just use Flatseal (or KDE’s builtin Flatpak permission manager) to remove any permissions I don’t like. I do that for all apps.
If I was on my PC, I could reply with my Flatpak overrides. If I remember I’ll reply here.
TL;DR Yes, go for it it’ll be fine.
