• vithigar@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Wait, so for this to work access to the Nitro features it enables must be managed client-side and the client is fully trusted with no validation? That seems… unwise on the part of Discord.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      That seems… unwise on the part of Discord.

      New here? The company and people behind Discord suck shit and like all tech startups things like security are an afterthought for years on end.

      Adblockers had existed for 15 years or more by the time YouTube finally started cracking down on them. I think it would probably take similarly as long before enough people were actually exploiting that loophole before Discord did anything about it.

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        Adblockers had existed for 15 years or more by the time YouTube finally started cracking down on them

        And I STILL manage to beat them by, literally not even knowing about the crackdown in the first place and just telling Ublock Origin to do its thing

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      2 days ago

      No, the commenter ommited a lot of information, it’s not full Nitro, it’s just the features that can be enabled/worked around client-side, see my comment under the parent one.

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      I don’t fully understand how Discord works, but apparently certain Nitro perks are just client side toggles. I only use it for streaming 1080@60fps, so I’m not sure about things like emojis, and after that I don’t even know what other Nitro perks exist.