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Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by stavros »

chefandy wrote: post #28
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.

> I wonder who thought that would be a good implementation. Client-side validation seems like a very novice mistake. As someone who only sends up PRs containing complete features in their final state implemented exactly as I hoped, I have no idea. Unrelated aside: just started my fifth new job this month. I never seem to jibe with project managers.

Five jobs in a month? At least you interview great!

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by didntcheck »

sneak wrote: 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…

Reminder: everything sent on a forum, including DMs, is being logged in plaintext and will be available to the administrator

Unless you're using one of the few services implementing a true zero-trust model where the user manages their own keys, then obviously this is true. They are storing your messages, yes... so that you can access them

I realise there are services like Matrix which do pull off E2E group messaging in a relatively friendly way, but they are the exception. It's unfair to accuse Discord of unique alleged malice for behaving the same as 95% of electronic communication platforms ever

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by GreenWatermelon »

intelVISA wrote: post #64
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 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 shit now I can't even consider myself a user. I can't really call it an OS anymore. It's something else... An advertisement platform built on top of an os.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by kkarakk »

userbinator wrote: post #8
asimpleusecase wrote: post #4

This is classic “hacker” in the curious and skilled sense of the word. No serious harm and it reminds us apps are not magic and code is cool.

Perhaps closer to "cracker", but I agree that this is the sort of knowledge that the corporates don't want us to know --- so they can attempt to squeeze more $$$ out of us without resistance.

the only people who use the term cracker are people trying to critique the ethicality of hacking.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by doublerabbit »

mdwalters wrote: post #17
viraptor wrote: post #3

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Discord is happy to ban people for anything. They even stop people for using alternative clients. If you care about your account, do not mess with discord.

I used gtkcord4, and I didn't get banned. I used Vencord, didn't get banned either. Of course, I wouldn't reccommend using any of these for the saftey of your account, as I was dumb back then and never learned about the risks. --- Also, one Discord alternative I would reccommend is Revolt[1]. Great community, and was famous for being featured in a No Text To Speech video (and my friend's server had a brief cameo too!…

Open source to: https://github.com/revoltchat

Really quite impressed.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by p1necone »

SSLy wrote: post #53
Aulig wrote: post #33

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Modded discord clients have been around for quite while. But indeed, the threat of being banned deters most people and if just a handful of people use a modded client discord doesnt care probably.

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

I use a modded client to remove the minimum window size limit.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by theshrike79 »

aeturnum wrote: post #42
ivraatiems wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect it's less they thought "this is a great implementation" and more "if people figure out how to break it, we'll patch it." This is the first time in several years of using Discord that I've heard of anyone even trying to circumvent their access/permissions structure for Nitro, so I see no reason why they'd bother unless this was widespread.

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.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by theshrike79 »

didntcheck wrote: post #69
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

Can you elaborate? What data are they extracting?

Most likely OP didn't grow up in the age of IRC, where nothing was ever encrypted and the server admin could see everything.

People just didn't share illegal, confidential or secret things with their own name and IP address or counted on the server admin not caring.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by MRtecno98 »

nextlevelwizard wrote: post #24
foepys wrote: post #23

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When I was young I didn't care how much hassle I had to get through to get stuff I wanted for free. Mostly I didn't have money as a 12 y/o.

You either didn't read what I wrote or misunderstood. My point was exactly: how many people want to go through all of this AND would instead pay IF this route wasn't available? a 12 year old without money won't pay for your service no matter what you do, so does it matter if you let them "hack it" for free?

Yes because you spend more money providing him with a better service(e.g. 60fps streaming which is noticeably more expensive to run)
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