This is the gold standard. If you have a headset with an inline volume wheel or a USB interface (like a GoXLR or Elgato Wave XLR), turn the physical volume knob to .

If you search the internet for a "Discord fake deafen plugin," you will likely find various GitHub repositories, YouTube tutorials, and sketchy download links. Before downloading any of them, you must understand the severe risks involved. 1. Violation of Discord’s Terms of Service (ToS)

These plugins do not exist in the official Discord client. They function through client-side modifications that inject custom JavaScript into the browser-based Discord application (desktop app).

Users may want to convey they are not listening without actually leaving the channel.

It was clumsy. It lowered the volume of all applications, not just Discord. If you were playing a game, you went deaf there too. Furthermore, other users could still see your "deafen" icon if Discord's client state glitched. Because BetterDiscord injects code directly into Discord's memory, Discord’s auto-updater would break the plugin weekly. Eventually, Discord scanned for BetterDiscord injections and flagged accounts for Terms of Service violations.

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If you need the functionality of a fake deafen without the high risk of a ban or security issue, consider these safer alternatives: