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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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It rightly warns that you could get banned for using these tricks, but is there any precedent for Discord banning users for this kind of thing?

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.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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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.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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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.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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It rightly warns that you could get banned for using these tricks, but is there any precedent for Discord banning users for this kind of thing?

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 got banned directly after signup. I got an email 1 second after signing up that I violated the community guidelines. The algorithm didn't like my Firefox/uBlock Origin combo I guess. Now my phone number is tainted and I can't make an account anymore. Oh well, no Discord for me I guess. (They really are very trigger-happy.)

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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post #3
post #2

It rightly warns that you could get banned for using these tricks, but is there any precedent for Discord banning users for this kind of thing?

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.

The beauty of entirely closed systems. Have poor security and bannish people for trying anything funky.
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