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[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago (19 children)

If they could stop trying to foist nitro on me that would be great.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (15 children)

Bandwidth isn't free, they gotta make money somehow

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (13 children)

Funny how when someone brings this up for a streaming service it's all "the ads are intrusive", "I don't want to pay this company". Etc. But when it's discord all the sudden "they gotta pay for bandwidth".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because you are still paying the streaming service, and then they serve you ads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Nope. They have a free model that is ads supported and a paid model that is not and doesn't have ads. That's my point. If the nitro ad was just a banner at the bottom of the app that would be one thing. But instead it shows up randomly as a notification like it's a message. That's garbage.

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