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Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform (archive.is)

submitted 7 months ago by empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won't last. They're going full Microsoft Skype mode and it's only a matter of time.

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[–] SacrificedBeans@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

In the past month I noticed ads inside Viber desktop (it's used a lot here, instead of WhatsApp)

Later I got a call from a friend that his windows defender picked up a trojan in Viber files.. Next day I got it too.

I shit you not, they let out an update with malware, on a popular chat app. I uninstalled and got the next update, with blind trust, I can't migrate atm...

[–] slumberlust@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

I find it hard to believe viber isn't some IoT connected sex toy name.

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

It is possible it was a false positive, though I am not familiar with Viber and its recent history in terms of malware incidents.

Still any platform that serves up ads needs to secure them.... and as none bother I simply block all ads.