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It really emphasises that the desktop client is a glorified webapp that the entire window from top to bottom is nothing but a Cloudflare error page:

It probably comes with a large feature set to extract more system information that a browser already tends to provide.

Or to have notifications work reliably.

Basically:

- Scan your system processes (and associated window titles)

- "native" screen capture

- Game overlay

- Global hotkeys

It's plenty possible to just use discord in the browser if you don't care of any of the above