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Discord starts down the dangerous road of ads this week
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2024
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Would you pay for Discord? That is the problem everyone thinks everything is free but running stuff costs money.
I've paid for Discord Nitro for at least a few years now. Primarily I wanted to do my part to stave off exactly this sort of thing.
This feels bad. I don't like this whatsoever.
I paid and still get peppered with their promotion. So I stopped paying, then if it gets worse I will uninstall and use the web app as you can block elements with the ad blockers. (so even site hosted stuff you can single out elements to block. )
edit: yeah, unfortunately I can't really just stop using it entirely, until my regular group server and some of the game's server move somewhere else.
I'm donating 5€/month to Signal because as far as I'm concerned they're doing good work.
I wouldn't pay for Discord.
I don't have to pay to use Matrix/Element.
Also, how much money? Their entire purpose is to maximize profit. It's not about keeping the lights on.