Board 8 > Discord to introduce ads to its users

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/discord-starts-down-the-dangerous-road-of-ads-this-week/

welp, at least there's still just using it through the web browser for now

FL81 posted...

at least there's still just using it through the web browser

I still don't understand why people actually willingly download a program when it was designed to be run in browser.

Dedf1sh posted...

I still don't understand why people actually willingly download a program when it was designed to be run in browser.

The ability to have a global push-to-talk hotkey in voice conversations (Meaning, without needing to click back into the discord window) is actually quite important to me, and last I checked the browser version didn't support that. Admittedly, if not for that, I'm not sure I'd use the standalone version.

Reg posted...

The ability to have a global push-to-talk hotkey in voice conversations (Meaning, without needing to click back into the discord window) is actually quite important to me, and last I checked the browser version didn't support that. Admittedly, if not for that, I'm not sure I'd use the standalone version.

This is still accurate. Browser discord has basically been abandoned for awhile.

Leafeon13N posted...

This is still accurate. Browser discord has basically been abandoned for awhile.

The standalone app is just a Chromium applet (Electron)

I can't imagine it being a difficult feature to implement

Can we go back to irc

FL81 posted...

The standalone app is just a Chromium applet (Electron)

I can't imagine it being a difficult feature to implement

Electron has more ways to hook into the underlying OS and fewer security features than the actual browser does, because it is running "trusted" (in theory) code, as opposed to a browser which can go to a web page that can be running theoretically anything in JS. Discord could implement it if browsers allowed them to, but also a global hotkey listener, if not handled properly, is functionally equivalent to a full-on keylogger.

Even if you don't think Discord is/would use it that way, it's not a stretch to say that other malicious sites (or even malicious ads on otherwise benign sites) could/would.