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alessandro ( alessandro@lemmy.ca )  to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 7 months ago

Twitch forces users to watch ads they can't click away from

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Twitch forces users to watch ads they can't click away from

www.dailydot.com

alessandro ( alessandro@lemmy.ca )  to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 7 months ago
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Twitch is testing a new way to experience ads when you pause a stream. But viewers aren't happy about the change.

Alternarives:

https://www.smashcast.tv/

https://nimo.tv/

https://dlive.tv/

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  • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor ( AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social ) 
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    What I find stupid is that people will keep using it after all the shit they are doing. I mean, it’s twitch, you can live without it. And yet, people will accept this bullshit and keep going because the alternative of changing platform is just too bothersome for them. In the end, I’m starting to think we have the internet we deserve.

    • real_squids ( real_squids@sopuli.xyz ) 
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      I only use it for in-game drops once in a blue moon and even then it’s on 160p with no sound with two ad blockers on, minimized in the background. So even if they somehow serve me ads I won’t see them lmao

      • brygphilomena ( brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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        Twitch channel point miner.

        I have it running as a docker container and it just collect drops and points for me.

        Honestly. The only reason I even have that was so I had points to gamble with during Eve Online’s alliance tournament. I don’t watch anything else on twitch.

        • KairuByte ( KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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          I appreciate you mentioning this.

          The point miner specifically was of little use to me, but it had never occurred to me that an application could authenticate and then just pretend to watch things. This lead me to the twitch drop miner, which seems to be exactly what I’m looking for.

        • real_squids ( real_squids@sopuli.xyz ) 
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          I have an extension like that yeah

    • Smaile ( Smaile@lemmy.ca ) 
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      no way, people will just leave twitch for another streaming platform, kick and youtube exist and many stream on there and if your lucky, your favs never took an exclusivity contract and already multi stream.

  • Zedstrian ( Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz ) 
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    Avoid minimizing or muting Twitch for a better experience.

    Avoid enshittifying Twitch for a better experience.

  • MonkderVierte ( MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ) 
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    Drink verification can.

  • WorldsDumbestMan ( WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ) 
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    Solution: stop using Twitch.

    • FatVegan ( FatVegan@leminal.space ) 
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      The best life hacks are always in the comments

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    That’s gonna take a whopping 10 lines of userscript to defeat, hell I already had to use one to stop them from dropping the video quality when unfocused (so I could watch streams in PiP properly)

  • yelling_at_cloud ( yelling_at_cloud@programming.dev ) 
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    I already saw this Black Mirror episode

  • LostWanderer ( LostWanderer@fedia.io ) 
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    Like, die in a fire Twitch! That’s some unhinged behavior which made me delete my account, and I left some pointed feedback. Not that they’ll care, but, fuck those fuckers!

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    I stopped going to the theater because I had to pay to watch commercials and advertisements.

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    gets arrested for using ad-blocking technologies

  • Korhaka ( Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ) 
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    Sounds like something browsers should have an option to prevent. Or just don’t use twitch in the first place.

  • Frank ( frankring@lemmy.ca ) 
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    Host your own OwnCast (https://owncast.online/). It uses ActivityPub and is part of the Fediverse.

    Here’s mine: https://live.fraxoweb.com/

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    IT equivalent to ‘Eyelids glued open’

  • MagnificentSteiner ( MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip ) 
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    Make it shitty!

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      OMG this is hysterical

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    wow, what an awful idea

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