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Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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post #15

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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)

Use Firefox!

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

#142
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…

Honestly, I pay because I'd rather Discord make a business of being paid by users than waiting to see who they end up getting paid by instead.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

#143
post #40

A reminder: everything sent via Discord, including DMs, is being logged in plaintext by Discord and will be available to them and whoever buys them (it was looking to be Microsoft for a while, though now it looks like they will IPO). Simply having an account there normalizes having personal conversations that can be easily data mined for AI, or otherwise used by Discord or their database/systems administrators. Secti…

Fortunately, Discord has traceless deletion of messages. Once you delete a message, it is no longer stored at their databases.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

#144
post #40

A reminder: everything sent via Discord, including DMs, is being logged in plaintext by Discord and will be available to them and whoever buys them (it was looking to be Microsoft for a while, though now it looks like they will IPO). Simply having an account there normalizes having personal conversations that can be easily data mined for AI, or otherwise used by Discord or their database/systems administrators. Secti…

Fortunately, Discord has traceless deletion of messages. Once you delete a message, it is no longer stored at their databases.

Is this really the case? I'm skeptical because I kept a conversation with someone who deleted their whole account. The messages are still there on my end which means Discord still has them.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

#145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fortunately, Discord has traceless deletion of messages. Once you delete a message, it is no longer stored at their databases.

Is this really the case? I'm skeptical because I kept a conversation with someone who deleted their whole account. The messages are still there on my end which means Discord still has them.

User account deletion sadly does not imply deletion of said user's previous messages. They are instead coalesced to a unified ghost user. Messages have to be deleted manually.
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