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[-] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You can fake a Nitro subscription for free higher quality streaming. Look up ~~Vendord~~, it hardens Discord for better security, adds themes, and plugins. One such plugin is fake Nitro.

Edit: Vencord. Got autocorrected.

Also adding I have only used fake Nitro for streaming quality. So I have no idea if it works for emojis or whatever other Nitro perks there are.

[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 days ago

Wait, so for this to work access to the Nitro features it enables must be managed client-side and the client is fully trusted with no validation? That seems... unwise on the part of Discord.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That seems… unwise on the part of Discord.

New here? The company and people behind Discord suck shit and like all tech startups things like security are an afterthought for years on end.

Adblockers had existed for 15 years or more by the time YouTube finally started cracking down on them. I think it would probably take similarly as long before enough people were actually exploiting that loophole before Discord did anything about it.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 14 hours ago

Adblockers had existed for 15 years or more by the time YouTube finally started cracking down on them

And I STILL manage to beat them by, literally not even knowing about the crackdown in the first place and just telling Ublock Origin to do its thing

[-] taaz@biglemmowski.win 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, the commenter ommited a lot of information, it's not full Nitro, it's just the features that can be enabled/worked around client-side, see my comment under the parent one.

[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I did say "the features it enables", not every Nitro feature.

[-] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

I don't fully understand how Discord works, but apparently certain Nitro perks are just client side toggles. I only use it for streaming 1080@60fps, so I'm not sure about things like emojis, and after that I don't even know what other Nitro perks exist.

[-] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 days ago

The downside is it's against their ToS, and you could have your account banned or similar if they do decide to take action.

[-] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 days ago

Oh no, not my free account.

Thanks for the heads up, though!

[-] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago

Eh I mean there are lots of connections I've made with people only on discord that would suck to lose.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 14 hours ago

Apparently it's very easy to make a new account

[-] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Vendord

Just wanted to correct that is Vencord, with a C. I couldn’t find it the other way and when I added “discord” as an additional parameter I noticed the spelling was off.

[-] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago
[-] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

All good! Just wanted to make sure people could find it

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

I literally ended my comment with saying the service was worth the price, and you pitch a way to pirate it to me. Wild.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

It's your opinion that the service is worth the price; I know nobody who shares that opinion. Sharing an alternative shouldn't be seen as hostile or "wild". If it was like a buck a month, I'd pay that. But at checks notes $3/month for increased upload size (I have a nas with public file sharing, so..) and.. emoji? or $10/month for the above + "super reactions" (wat), not-ass streaming res, "server boosts" (???) and "custom profiles" (what does that even mean? a background?)... You're kidding me, right? I pay less for my web hosting, or my vps, my security/AV software... Even Bitwarden, or NextDNS, is pennies compared to nitro. Ten bucks a month is actually insane from my perspective. $120 a year for bigger uploads and decent streaming resolution is highway robbery.

To use your term: wild.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago

Yes, I said it was my opinion.

[-] Joelio@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago

Well, this "pirate" option also fixed issues that plagued the Linux desktop client for years. Discord only got screen share working about a month ago, that feature has been around since 2017 (I think). Meanwhile the "pirate" option had fixed that (even on wayland) while people were waiting for the basic features to function.

[-] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

Yep, people have had to use alternative Discord clients on Linux for quite some time.

For anyone curious: Vesktop, ripcord, webcord, and armcord are the ones I tried at some point.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Doesn't Linux Discord still not have audio streaming unless you use Vesktop?

[-] Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

No, that's what was fixed a month ago. It does still have its bugs though, I found that if the audio doesn't show I have to close the app and reopen it before it will work, but that happened from time to time with the workarounds as well so I'm thinking maybe it's just an issue on the Linux side

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

To be clear, a pirated copy of something may well be improved over the original but that doesn't make it not a pirated copy, so you can lose the quotes. It sounds like Discord is not in a good place on Linux and I'm sure I'd agree it's not worth the cost of the sub if I were on Linux.

[-] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

Hah, I just like spreading the good word of piracy. Especially Discord since their app is a piece of shit.

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