You can opt out of having your voice recorded in Discord Clips, but you can’t opt out of desktop audio capture.
Discord’s experimental new Clips feature, which has been rolling out since last year, lets users who are streaming in a voice channel capture up to two-minute-long clips of their streams. It’s a nice little feature addition that has accidentally become mildly controversial.
The fear is privacy. On social media, some posters have sounded the alarm over Clips’ ability to record the voices of the other users in a channel aside from the streamer, urging their followers to opt out in Discord’s settings—there’s a toggle which omits your voice from Clips. Multiple Facebook posts I’ve seen declare that Discord now records your voice without your knowledge, and one said they couldn’t think of any legitimate use for the feature.
Actually, Discord clearly notifies the users in a voice channel as soon as someone with Clips enabled starts streaming.
