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> Right. If your browser isn't on the short list, it just isn't supported. Want to access discord from a tty over ssh? Go fuck yourself, not supported. Want to access it through your custom text-to-speech system? Go fuck yourself, not supported.

Are you seriously mad that a company selling a commercial product doesn't support tty support for their browser app?

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Indirectly, the issue is rather that they will ban you if you don't use their client, even if it comes at no cost to them (setting aside losing the ability to run spyware on your device). It doesn't need to be a tty client, it could be a client for a older phone, a native client for GNOME, a client with more features and extensibility, or whatever. They do not know best what every person's wants or needs are. And until this issue is overcome (which I don't expect it to be), the service is unfit for general usage.

> setting aside losing the ability to run spyware on your device

I think you're underestimating how lucrative spyware is.

Remember, Google is basically funded entirely by spyware and 'spyservices'. Data is the new gold. Unfortunately it's your data and someone else's gold :(

I think it would have been conventional to add a "\s" to the end of that sentence?

I missed that, sorry :)

This demonstrates why a company selling a commercial product is a poor substitute for an open standard.

I don't know why you're bringing my emotions into it.

I don't think Discord should exist, and the fact that it's a commercial product shaped by the economic self-interest of one company is the reason it's so bad.

You talk about it like the commercial motives actually justify the negative properties. "Someone's making money! How can you object??"

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