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Discord Settings ​

Navigate to Discord and click the gear icon next to your username.

User Settings ​

My Account ​

Profiles ​

  • Avoid giving out personal information on your profile and never use your face as your profile picture

Privacy & Safety ​

Sensitive Media ​

  • Direct messages from friends: Show
  • Direct messages from others: Show
  • Server channel messages: Show

INFO

The above settings should be set to 'Show' to prevent Discord from scanning the images.

DM Spam Filter ​

  • Turn on: Do not filter direct messages

Server Privacy Defaults ​

  • Allow direct messages from server members: Off
  • Enable message requests from server members you may not know: Off

How We Use Your Data ​

  • Use data to improve Discord: Off
  • Use data to personalise my Discord experience: Off
  • In-game rewards (aka Quests): Off
  • Use data to make Discord work: Off

Authorised Apps ​

  • Remove any unnecessary applications

Devices ​

  • Remove all old logins from your account

Connections ​

  • Avoid linking anything, especially accounts with personal information

Clips ​

  • Allow my voice to be recorded in Clips: Off

Friend requests ​

  • Turn off: Everyone

Payment Settings ​

Billing ​

  • Remove all payment methods from your account

App Settings ​

Chat ​

Stickers ​

  • Stickers Suggestions: Off
  • Stickers in Autocomplete: Off

Notifications ​

Email Notifications ​

  • Communication Emails: Off
  • Social Emails: Off
  • Announcements and Update Emails: Off
  • Tip Emails: Off
  • Recommendation Emails: Off
  • Unsubscribe from all marketing emails

Activity Settings ​

Activity Privacy ​

Activity Status ​

  • Share your detected activities with others: Off
  • Share your activity status by default when joining large servers: Off

Rich Presence ​

  • Allow friends to join your game: Off
  • Allow voice channel participants to join your game: Off

Registered Games ​

  • Remove all games from your account

Game Overlay ​

  • Enable in-game overlay: Off