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Discord to start showing ads in-app this week - Dexerto

In early March 2024, Discord revealed that “sponsored quests”, or ads would be added to the platform to help “support game developers” through the popular chat app. 

Discord didn’t initially share a release date, or even how they’re going to implement ads into Discord’s overall design, other than mentioning that the sponsored quests would “tastefully” be integrated. 

A report from The Wall Street Journal claims that Discord’s sponsored quests will be landing on the platform this week, and will be displayed at the bottom left of the app.

skeezix ,

U BLOCK ORIGIN ACTIVATED

Juice88 ,
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I deleted my discord account about a year ago due to privacy concerns and I’ve been tempted to make a new one a few times but this definitely won’t push me closer.

BrownianMotion ,
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I read about this, and you will have the ability to turn the ad's off in settings.

They are optional. For now.

systemglitch ,

For now!

rob_t_firefly ,
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Screenshot of the "Privacy and Safety" section of the user settings in Discord desktop. There's an arrow pointing toward the switch controlling the "In-game rewards (aka Quests)" setting, with the text "Turn this crap off to stay out of the stupid new ad crap."

taanegl ,

Time to enter the Matrix haha... just maybe not that Matrix server.. a different Matrix server.

smileyhead ,

Join different server to well distribute the network and left matrix.org for newcommers.

deadbeef ,

Please drink a verification can to continue.

wyre ,
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RIP Discord

floridaman ,

Haha April fools, right? Right??

Aatube ,
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TL;DR: Currently a menu inside settings that gives you in-game reward redeem codes if you stream the game for a set amount of time. Someday, these will "show up tastefully in Discord".

turkalino ,
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If it’s to “support game developers”, I’m guessing/hoping that means the ads will only show up in the Activities feature

datavoid ,

They definitely just wrote that to make it go down easier. They aren't running ads for games out of the goodness of their hearts

gm0n3y ,

Time to fire up the vent server

eth0slash0 ,

https://youtube.com/watch?v=aTJncWndUB8

thanks_shakey_snake ,

I knew what this was going to be before I clicked.

tabular ,
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If friends decide they will use something else then I can avoid Discord. Till then, guess I'll start using it on the web for the adblock.

Rascabin ,

Private dns, adguard , Google it. Might work.

pycorax ,

I'm pretty sure BetterDiscord or Vencord would very quickly add in a plugin to disable those ads.

systemglitch ,

I never heard of those, I shall look I to them, thank you for granting me awareness.

ElectroLisa ,
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I guess now they’ll enforce the ban on third party clients

KingBoo ,

This is correct.

Badeendje ,
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Great, the app is already a hot mess. It remind me of the early internet homepages people used to make.

weeeeum ,

God what is it with every social media app sucking hot fucking garbage despite being the most popular way to access it?. Especially if the app was bearable and progressively got worse.

Plopp ,

Capitalism.

strongarm ,

If only

AstralPath ,

Switch to Revolt? Anyone got alternatives?

RiQuY ,

Matrix too.

wyre ,
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The nice thing about federation is we no longer have to put up with anyone’s shit.

TheRaven ,
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The annoying thing about federation is that we have to convince our friends to stop putting up with it. Not an actual argument against. I just wish I could convert everyone I follow over.

wyre ,
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Their frustration will eventually be the largest determining factor. Some may never catch on.

cm0002 ,

frustration will eventually be the largest determining factor

Never underestimate the power of frustration lol, just start subtly dropping hints after they complain about something on their preferred app and someday the straw will break the camels back.

It's easy for people to deal with BS when they're thinking it's the same BS everywhere, but once they know that there is an app that has less or no BS like that...

Or what do I know I never build up the conversation skill tree and high AF lmao

knightmare1147 ,

Based

CliveRosfield ,

There’s no good discord alternatives with all the features unfortunately. It’s a wait and see type of thing.

_spiffy ,
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Guilded.gg

Asudox ,
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It's owned by Roblox.

kurcatovium ,
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Is that worse than discord? Genuine question, I'm too old for roblox so I have no clue...

Asudox ,
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Hmm. They're the same? None is better. Better use something else like Revolt or Matrix.
Though Revolt is more like Discord whereas Matrix lacks features.

AstralPath ,

Privacy policy sucks. Compare it to revolt.

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