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They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won't last. They're going full Microsoft Skype mode and it's only a matter of time.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 7 months ago (3 children)

This may actually push users into thinking about modding discord, or even better, switching to matrix

Good move discord, I like it

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I never stopped using irc (I know I'm old). There is matrix to irc connectors that are awesome. One of the benefits of open source is a lot of the protocols work well together.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Can you recommend any IRC channels for techies please? I like infosec, Linux, and Mac topics but I can't find any communities that aren't turbo-clicky or dead. Most channels I've found are like ham radio: a bunch of old grumpy people ragchewing. I'd like an actual conversation I can contribute to.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not Rizon - Linux. I asked them a noob question and they banned me. Kind of irked me because I was just asking for help or opinion. I don't even remember what I asked.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

ah, that vintage linux community experience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

"RTFM" but the manual has been out of date for years? Hell yeah keep it old school.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I'd like to know as well. I'd love to join a good community or older techies.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Discord runs just fine in Firefox with uBO.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

The way they sound like they're implementing ads, it's not going to be a simple banner or anything but rather a part of the UI that promotes some kind of streaming challenge. It's not likely to be blockable if they make the ads a base part of the container.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

If it's downloaded onto your machine, it can be blocked. It's impossible to prevent a dedicated enough community from blocking ads. YouTube hasn't even been able to keep users from doing it; they've had to resort to changing their platform (Chrome) to make it harder, but that just means people have to use other platforms.

It's your machine, and you have admin rights on it. That means you control the data and display of that machine; ad block blocking is Quixotic at best, and neurotic at worst. Which YouTube has discovered.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Will filtering elements not work?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wait, there are mods for discord?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, check out Vesktop/Vencord. The plugins are great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I use webcord, hopefully they'll integrate an adblocker