discord-sandboxed VS OpenAsar

I want to improve my privacy and now discord is a big border in front of me. I cant switch to matrix because my friends wont but i found some alternative clients which are blocking trackers and just using Electron like the original discord client. Do you know other good alternatives and why is yours the best? I found "ArmCord" and "discord-sandboxed". My question is can i trust them? Which one is better? Do you know more?

Sadly no, but its more privacy respecting than the regular client for sure. FOSS options include: https://github.com/diamondburned/gtkcord4 https://github.com/uowuo/abaddon https://github.com/terminal-discord/weechat-discord (weechat plugin to use Discord within weechat) https://github.com/evelyneee/accord (seems to be for M1 macs) https://github.com/ArmCord/ArmCord (seems to support AMD64, not just Arm64) https://github.com/khlam/discord-sandboxed (sandboxing for standard discord client) There are others I'm sure. One easier option is to run the Discord code in a newer version of Electron. This still isn't open source, but it provides better security and performance. Arch users can use the AUR package discord_arch_electron, other users can just follow the commands in the PKGBUILD for said package and figure it out. Hope that helps. Keep in mind even if your client is open source, Discord's servers aren't, and while there will be some mitigation of data collected, it'll still be quite a bit.

I use this open-source, sandboxed client that connects to Discord Web and even blocks some trackers: https://github.com/khlam/discord-sandboxed

OpenAsar might fix this

Currently I use webcord but I used to use OpenAsar, which has an option to ignore an update when it is available. You can use an alpm hook to automate the process.

yep, theres this thing called openasar that can disable it :3

Discord on Linux (which Chromebooks effectively run) is gobeshite, utter trash. Try using it in the browser and if that doesn’t work try https://openasar.dev or https://armcord.xyz

Have a look at open asar https://github.com/GooseMod/OpenAsar

OpenAsar fixes this iirc

If you only want to use a theme then you can also use https://openasar.dev/ With this you can add a CSS code for the theme you would like to have and it runs on the normal Discord client.

Not really it’s kinda like a rewrite of some of discords source code, it explains it better on the website https://openasar.dev

if you really rely on discord you could use something like this as a bandaid to remove some telemetry. mainly for crashes and error. also gives some nice little extra features. https://github.com/GooseMod/OpenAsar