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Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue (www.wsj.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Blxter to c/gaming

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Not sure how to unpay wall this if someone knows please inform.

The chat platform, which has long avoided advertising, is latest tech company to lean into paid promotions

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Really hoping adblockers for discord become a thing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you're on desktop: BetterDiscord. Supports plugins, and themes (I use an AMOLED theme), which make life so much nicer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks, I'll look into it!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

discord web is a thing ya know..
And we have webcord which is basically fancy discord web.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

yea I'm not sure what the benefit is for the app compared to the website, I tried both and they seem identical except the app is using an older and less secure version of Chromium and in a separate process so it uses more RAM, and it doesn't benefit from my browser extensions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The benefit is that it's not situated inside your chrome user interface, with the toolbar and the tabs, so there's more screen real estate. Also most people don't know how to make desktop/startmenu shortcuts to web addresses.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

yup yup, i try to keep a clean, decluttered interface, and having all my browser stuff around the discord stuff is not a clean or enjoyable look. I'll deal with it if it's really the only way but I'll try everything else first.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

true, but I don't wanna have to log in every time I use it (I have my browsers set to clear cookies and history on close). If it's the only way I'll take the inconvenience, but trying to keep the startup process smooth if I can.