• atrielienz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Funny how when someone brings this up for a streaming service it’s all “the ads are intrusive”, “I don’t want to pay this company”. Etc. But when it’s discord all the sudden “they gotta pay for bandwidth”.

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      Steaming services don’t give it to you for free with the only ads being for the premium version of their service that you don’t really need…

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        So what you’re saying is that since their ads are for the product I am using the free version of, I shouldn’t get irritated about them?

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              In what world is it paid? I’ve used it for years and never gave them a dime. I decided to buy Nitro in the last year so that I can support the network. But, I was never held back from doing what I wanted to do because I didn’t have nitro.

              As someone who has hosted Team Speak servers. That shit isn’t free.

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        They also stop advertising to you if you install a plugin that disables the ads, shame they’re against TOS, not like there isnt many people using them anyways

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        There are streaming services that I pay for that have stopped advertising to me. Nitro makes it seem like I have notifications that I then have to hunt down in the app only to find that it’s them suggesting I buy a subscription.

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        Nope. They have a free model that is ads supported and a paid model that is not and doesn’t have ads. That’s my point. If the nitro ad was just a banner at the bottom of the app that would be one thing. But instead it shows up randomly as a notification like it’s a message. That’s garbage.