@psychodad, please, try again one more time....with discord.
I ll buy you a beer....
Thank you for all the work I already made you, I am really sorry as it seems to be a problem solely on my side affecting all the PCs I have access to. I guess now I owe you a beer or better two.
After I again got the phone verification bs, I digged a bit deeper. I found that discord wants to be able to send you JS that is able to connect to your localhost (127.0.0.1) which our browsers block by policy silently. I guess that facilitates running programs/application servers from within their platform and control them from within their platform which is certainly great for gamers and alikes. If that test connecting to 127.0.0.1 fails you get the phone verification.
I also took the pleasure to read their T&C and privacy statement and I think technically and legally it boils down to having to trust discord a very big deal in that they do the right thing(TM) with your data, as well as with the permissions you grant them to run almost unrestricted code on your computer. After all, the fascinating thing in crypto is that it is trustless and decentralized, discord is the complete opposite.
I appreciate much and feel really charmed by the efforts you took to get me into discord, therefor my longwinded explanation. But my experience, beliefs and convictions regarding privacy and computer security do not allow me to join discord in any possible future.
That said, I am here for anything I can help with G3N, just ping me!
Cheers - psycodad