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Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app(www.theverge.com)

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rbesfe@lemmy.ca
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Bandwidth isn’t free, they gotta make money somehow

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atrielienz@lemmy.world
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Funny how when someone brings this up for a streaming service it’s all “the ads are intrusive”, “I don’t want to pay this company”. Etc. But when it’s discord all the sudden “they gotta pay for bandwidth”.

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λλλ@programming.dev
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Steaming services don’t give it to you for free with the only ads being for the premium version of their service that you don’t really need…

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atrielienz@lemmy.world
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So what you’re saying is that since their ads are for the product I am using the free version of, I shouldn’t get irritated about them?

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Numuruzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I think the difference is that when you pay discord, they stop advertising to you.

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atrielienz@lemmy.world
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There are streaming services that I pay for that have stopped advertising to me. Nitro makes it seem like I have notifications that I then have to hunt down in the app only to find that it’s them suggesting I buy a subscription.

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KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
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They also stop advertising to you if you install a plugin that disables the ads, shame they’re against TOS, not like there isnt many people using them anyways

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dangblingus@lemmy.world
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Because you are still paying the streaming service, and then they serve you ads.

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atrielienz@lemmy.world
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Nope. They have a free model that is ads supported and a paid model that is not and doesn’t have ads. That’s my point. If the nitro ad was just a banner at the bottom of the app that would be one thing. But instead it shows up randomly as a notification like it’s a message. That’s garbage.

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