in times of ever increasing surveillance,
TeamSpeak6 should be a great software to have a decentralized
and encrypted approach for Internet communication in contrast to Discord,
which now slowly enforces ID-/Selfie-Checks like Roblox did
and showing that they are not capable of storing user data securely.
With TeamSpeak3 you could set up your own server and use the client
without any of this. Sadly, now we are forced to use a myTeamSpeak-Account
for accessing even the TeamSpeak6 client.
They say, it’s for the beta, but I’m having a bad gut feeling,
that this will stay afterwards.
If you argue, that this is a security feature against trolling
on servers: Make it a server setting, where you could allow only myTeamSpeak-Connections.
Let it be the choice of the server owner!
When I remember correctly, this feature was already in the TeamSpeak3 server
somewhere, but I’m not completely sure.
Being forced to use an always-online account is the main reason,
why I’m not using TeamSpeak6 and stay on TeamSpeak3, where
I cannot use the new cool features like screen-sharing, etc.
Please remove the obligatory myTeamSpeak-Account from TeamSpeak6 and let
it be like TeamSpeak3: A cool open-for-everyone software,
which brings back digital sovereignty to the users.
The current login screen was indeed created for the closed beta, as you’ve needed to have an invite code to be able to use the client.
Right now using into the client just requires an myTS account, without any permission check. Because the client is still in beta, supporting usage without an account would involve some big changes under the hood and with our small team, this change hasn’t been a top priority.
However I’ll forward this request internally for discussion
So I was going through TS6 stuff again after not being on in awhile, and I noticed when installing TS6 that there was a requirement of an account, but it said for beta access. I was wondering if the account requirement will be removed in the future. As with the future of Discord requiring Gov’t ID’s to be able to access certain features, my friends are looking for a more privacy focused alternatives and I suggested TeamSpeak. I wanted them to be able to use TS6 because of all the cool features that have been enabled now, I know they don’t want to have to create an account for privacy reasons. Would there be a time where the account requirement is removed for TS6. I understand there may be issues with certain features like MyTeamspeak not existing, so syncing might also just not exist, but being able to access features like screensharing is a big point we want to have without an account being needed.
