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Why Does Discord Not Use Ads? And Why Is Microsoft Interested? We Asked Discord's CEO
Why Does Discord Not Use Ads? We started hearing about, like people who trade sneakers or come together because there's a musician that they're really passionate about and they hang out with. During the pandemic, we launched video chat so that it was really, really easy to actually hang out and see your friends' faces, and it's one of the fastest growing features we've seen across Discord. When you're on Discord, would people know it's you? You've said that Discord not requiring people to reveal who they really are, like many other popular platforms, is crucial to how people interact on the site.
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