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

Edit: it’s more loot box stuff… but it’s step one

Hmm you might be right. And if 2016 has taught us anything: it might work.

What a kamikaze of a defense…

Yet

It’s actually optimized for them. The goal is to get users to spend time and see ads etc. The UI is not made for us users.

And didn’t their president recently step down because of fraud with research data or something?

Things are going great over there.