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Bandwidth isn't free, they gotta make money somehow
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".
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..
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?
You can feel however which way you want. But, comparing it to paid services isn't fair..
It is a paid service though?
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.
If they're asking you to pay a subscription then they have a paid tier.
Having a paid tier and being a "paid service" aren't the same thing.
It seems like you don't maybe know what you're talking about. If the service is available for free but there is a paid tier (like Twitch) then that's still a paid tier. Just because it's not providing the exact same features for the payment means nothing.
I think the difference is that when you pay discord, they stop advertising to you.
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.
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
Because you are still paying the streaming service, and then they serve you ads.
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.
P2P is the answer, Matrix has been doing this for a few years