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Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade
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this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2024
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I don't use discord but I don't think it's a bad idea. Those servers costs money
They already can support them:
Discord generated $445 million revenue in 2022, an 42% increase year-on-year
They are getting greedy it has nothing to do with server cost
Revenue alone doesn't mean much, how much was profit?
Tried to find net, didn't find a lot of info on it but I also didn't try very hard. If anyone finds I'm very curious what it is.
They’re not public anyone who’s seen it has signed an nda.
Every info seems to point that Discord hasn't had a single year with positive profit. Here's one of the sources
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They already have a premium subscription model