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Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade (www.neowin.net)

submitted 7 months ago by GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] rizoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I truly don't have a problem with ads being in a free service. My anger will be based on how annoying they are when they roll out.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 26 points 7 months ago

The ads will become increasingly annoying snd intrusive over time based on every other website and app that has gone from free to supported by ads.

Even if they aren't too bad at first, they will get worse. Just like the nitro ads that are already in discord.

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 13 points 7 months ago

The problem is that no o.e will just serve a static PNG banner ad anymore. Ads these days inherently come with all the BS that makes blocking them mandatory

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago

people do pay for discord though. that was the entire justification for Nitro and Server Boosts. they made $440 million in revenue in 2022. they aren't publicly traded so there's no way to compare that with expenses, but i'd be pretty surprised if they weren't turning a significant profit.