In an apparent effort to boost revenues, gaming social media startup Discord plans to implement ads into its free service. The step is expected in the coming days after 9 years of ad-free experience.

I don’t think people on this sub use it, but it’s great news for us. The worse it gets the likelier people move on.

  • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
    856·
    8 months ago

    Yeah god forbid anyone pay for the shit they use, just keep hopping around to suck the life out of every ‘free’ service there is. Nitro is right there.

    • RiQuY@lemm.ee
      422·
      8 months ago

      If it wasn’t a privacy nightmare maybe I will consider paying, but data theft + ads? Naaaah.

      • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
        844·
        8 months ago

        Ah right, so it’s fine if it’s a privacy nightmare but combined with ads, woah there. If you’re right, they already have your data. If you don’t use it, why even complain?

        • RiQuY@lemm.ee
          221·
          8 months ago

          Because I’m free to complain about things I don’t like.

          Many of my friends use Discord but I also use Matrix and I prefer that. This is a Signal/WhatsApp like situation.

          If Discord starts shoving them ads maybe I can bring some people over to a more secure platform easily.

          • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
            321·
            8 months ago

            Yeah, sure, complain about it if you want to, it just doesn’t make sense if you’ve already given them the data. I like Signal for privacy but it doesn’t have any customization, no personalization, no personality, it’s nearly sterile. It does it’s job and that’s it. Great for people who want privacy for like… work but for just talking to friends Discord seems more enjoyable.

      • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        8 months ago

        Because of people… like you… who provide nothing to a free service besides costing bandwidth… leeches to a free internet… vampires to charity…