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[–] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

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 34 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] taaz@biglemmowski.win 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

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 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

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

[–] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day 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 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh no, not my free account.

Thanks for the heads up, though!

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

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 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] Joelio@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day 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.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 0 points 19 hours 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 8 points 1 day ago

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