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Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by izzydata »

GreenWatermelon wrote: post #73
intelVISA wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Discord is doing so well It's remarkable how much data they are extracting, if the average user knew there would likely be multiple scandals or legal proceedings

Personally, I don't care how much usage data they collect as long as they're not selling that data to third parties, or attempt to show me ads. Of course there's the threat of data leakage, buuuut it's risk I accept, when it comes to my mundane usage of discord. My main gripe with data collection platforms is how they turn every platform into an ad board. Chief among my disappointments is windows. It's so thoroughly…

Who says they aren't selling the data? They are probably selling it to every company trying to do a language model at the moment.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by superkuh »

userbinator wrote: post #7

Currently, Discord doesn’t appear to validate on their servers whether the stream being transmitted truly adheres to the criteria of a non-subscribed user I wonder who thought that would be a good implementation. Client-side validation seems like a very novice mistake.

Like most corporations Discord doesn't care to make decent software. Instead it just maintains a team of lawyers to fix "problems" with it's implementations.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by meowface »

rvnx wrote: post #59
SSLy wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are even people like me, who have Nitro and still use modded client for different reasons.

Being able to delete your previous messages in bulk is a very good reason for example, it's borderline (or completely ?) illegal to threaten users to ban them if they choose to use their right to mass-delete their previous messages.

Yeah, I think it's one of those things where Discord reserves the right to ban anyone using automation on their user account, but in practice they don't take action unless you're clearly doing something malicious or annoying. At least as far as I know.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by tsumnia »

Bu9818 wrote: post #54
totetsu wrote: post #52

Recent openAI suddenly disabled their beta testers discord, and I couldn't see who or what we had all been discussion anymore. I wondered if there was a way to export chats so server managers couldn't just cut a community off from each other with no record to browse after. There is a bunch of chrome extensions out there to export discord chats but most seem to have some payment gated features. turns out just copying…

DiscordChatExporter: https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter It's a standalone program using the API in a nonstandard way but I don't think anyone's been banned for using it yet.

FYI while this will display the various channels, if your account does not have access to the channel, you cannot export its logs. For channels you can collect, you get the author, datetime, message content, links to any attachments, and reaction counts (but not whom made the reactions).

I've been using DCE to do some analysis on student interactions. This was a hurdle we ran into while exporting logs for various class channels.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by bentcorner »

theshrike79 wrote: post #78
aeturnum wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Once you think about the tech I think there's an obvious steady state: - It's cheaper not to check on every call sever-side and the people who are most likely to dodge in this way are also not likely potential sources of revenue. - you shouldn't ban every person who tries this. They will gum up support and, on average, won't even be trying to earnestly get features for free. - Also people who exploit the obviously vu…

And banning/punishing in waves is better than doing it immediately. You gather a bunch of offenders for weeks or months and then one day they just go poof and everyone knows why. This way you can weed out the ones who were just experimenting (few attempts) from those who use it regularly.

> one day they just go poof and everyone knows why.

I thought the point of ban waves was precisely because there's no direct cause-and-effect. E.g., if you perform an exploit and get banned immediately, you know that the system can detect your exploit. If you get banned a month later, it might have been your exploit or something else you did between then and now.

This reduces the selection pressure on black-hats to produce ban-avoiding exploits.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by Humboldtsnee »

Dalewyn wrote: post #26
simmerup wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Discord is doing so well it's hard to say whether this is actually a problem for them or not. Maybe focusing on this security would have stopped them performing so well

>Discord is doing so well Are they? They try to sell me Nitro at least once every month, which only gives me the impression that they're desperate to increase their revenue stream to make ends meet.

My podcasts try to sell me stuff 5 times an hour, radio even more. Being nagged to pay for a service you use once a month is basically silence.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by someguy7250 »

berbec wrote: post #15
its_a_random_ac wrote: post #5

I'm not accusing the author of doing this, but providing a simple base64 encoded blob at the end to run to enable everything would be a pretty easy attack vector, wouldn't it? edit: just decoded it and touché

For those to lazy to run base64 --decode, here's the result: // Here's a cake if you thought about inspecting the code before executing it: let css = 'font-size: 36px; font-weight: bold; color: red'; console.log("%cNEVER paste code you don't understand into the development console.", css); console.log("%cThis is the best way to compromise your account.", css);

> NEVER paste code you don't understand into the development console

Tech companies have long achieved security by simply locking people out of choices that they shouldn't make.

I'm suspecting that Google will soon lock people out of Chrome's developer tools unless they can prove they are a developer (with a certificate that's tied to the website they are debugging)

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

s1mon wrote: post #21

I use Discord all the time, but I have seen zero reason to get Nitro. Every time they try to upsell it to me the "features" are unnecessary. The marque feature either "50MB uploads" (Nitro Basic) or "500MB uploads" (Nitro). Is this per file, per day, per month??? I only share the occasional screenshot or small file, so uploads have never been an issue. The rest of the "benefits" - "server boosts", custom Emoji, or a…

> The marque feature either "50MB uploads" (Nitro Basic) or "500MB uploads" (Nitro). Is this per file, per day, per month???

It's per-file.

> I only share the occasional screenshot or small file, so uploads have never been an issue.

When I was running a 1440p monitor, screenshots usually ran into the upload file size limit. I would have to manually resize them. This was a hassle, so I started paying for Discord Nitro. I'm fine with it, I certainly get value from Discord.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by abwizz »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #129
s1mon wrote: post #21

I use Discord all the time, but I have seen zero reason to get Nitro. Every time they try to upsell it to me the "features" are unnecessary. The marque feature either "50MB uploads" (Nitro Basic) or "500MB uploads" (Nitro). Is this per file, per day, per month??? I only share the occasional screenshot or small file, so uploads have never been an issue. The rest of the "benefits" - "server boosts", custom Emoji, or a…

> The marque feature either "50MB uploads" (Nitro Basic) or "500MB uploads" (Nitro). Is this per file, per day, per month??? It's per-file. > I only share the occasional screenshot or small file, so uploads have never been an issue. When I was running a 1440p monitor, screenshots usually ran into the upload file size limit. I would have to manually resize them. This was a hassle, so I started paying for Discord Nitro…

50MB screenshot sounds excessive
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