There is so little advertising on discord that I find it hilarious you are so upset about a few notifications here and there about nitro and other aesthetic perks which are basically entirely optional

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hresvelgr 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There are 3rd party ads in Discord now, and they are probably going to expand as an ad platform. I think this is what the parent comment was upset about.

edit: grammar

	▲	hmokiguess 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That too, I have to be on Nitro because of work. (Managing communities, streaming resolution, etc), and the level of ads triple after being a customer. Even worse if you need to blend in like adopting some of the customization since the cult goes deep. To be fair, I put myself there and I voluntarily work with those audiences. I am aware I don't belong to the same level they do, and I'm ok with that. I just wish I could customize it my way too. In my view, if this was a protocol rather than a PaaS locked-in system, like IRC for example, we all would be winning.

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hmokiguess 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

A few notifications here and there? I'm not sure I can agree with you. It's a daily persistent thing that there is no way to disable and the constant dark patterns.

I believe I am not alone with things like https://betterdiscord.app/ having more than 56M downloads (and that being just one of the custom mods)

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xboxnolifes 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm actually confused about what you mean with "daily persistent thing". I see a discord popup on start about a new feature or ad for some collaboration maybe once a month. Most days it just starts and brings me to the last server I was in.

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hmokiguess 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Three things I can't remove from the UI that often have intrusive popups at random placed directly under "Friends":

1. Nitro Home 2. Shop 3. Quests

And hovering on users often brings up upsell.

	▲	xboxnolifes 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Interesting, I almost never see any of that stuff when I use discord, but I realize that's because I almost never use DMs.