Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."

The_Hideous_Orgalorg@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Damarus@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah but uBlock can’t or at least doesn’t block Twitch ads, so that doesn’t really apply here.

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  • ramasses@social.ozymandias.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Theirs a script on github to block twitch ads, works flawlessly

    https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions

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  • rozodru@piefed.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    it does but with Twitch it’s a constant battle. you can go for days or weeks on end and it’ll work great then boom a few days to a week and it won’t work anymore until the maintainers figure out yet another way to circumvent twitch ads.

    It just got to a point for me where I just stopped using twitch. I mean the site overall and the content/streamers have just gotten a lot worse in the past few years and there’s really nothing on there anymore worth watching.

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  • Redacted@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can add a little string of text to ublock and itll work again. Havent seen an ad nonconsentually in years on there

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    • scbasteve@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Dont say you can do it, and not share it man. Spill the beans

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      • pticrix@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Here you go fellow seafarer github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions

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      • Redacted@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ill link it when i get off work

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  • Occultist0178@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Of course it does, I have never seen an ad in Twitch, thus is it course in Firefox, don’t know how it works in Chrome with the messed up adblock system 🤷

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    • Damarus@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sorry but that’s just wrong. Ads on Twitch are forced in a way that can’t be easily bypassed locally. That’s why stuff like Twitch AdSolutions exists. The common workaround is using a proxy server in countries that don’t get ads, maybe you live in one of those.

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      • Occultist0178@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh it seems that you are right, I didn’t know that, I thought it was just blocked through ublock. Thanks for your comment

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        ublock can too block twitch ads, because it can run adsolutions itself. it’s even on that page you linked.

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      • CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thank you. I just stopped using that website overall, because of all the ads thrown down my throat.

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• thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Seeing those was one of the more dystopian experiences I had when visiting the US a while back. The entire concept was absolutely insane to me.

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• SlyLycan@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Those are so atrocious. I just found out the closest gas station near my house installed big ass screens on the pumps that are bigger than my largest tablet and have impressively loud speakers. The station previously didn’t have any video screens so when I passed by the screen to unscrew the gas cap, and it started blasting the ad I nearly jumped out of my skin.

  I don’t have a clue where another gas station without the ad screens even is. Blegh 😮‍💨

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  • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The ones around me have a big old mute button and I’ve gotten into the habit of hitting that button as gas starts to flow so I don’t hear more than a second or two of whatever garbage they’re playing

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    • myrrh@ttrpg.network ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      …yeah, my wife tells me some stations have started disabling the mute button; haven’t encountered one yet but the day i do is the day i start carrying an icepick to mute those speakers the old-fashioned way…

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      • moonshadow@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        I have a standing bounty, 1/8oz good weed for proof of dead surveillance infra. One little shit tried turning in three parts off the same plate reader

        Anyways, the kids are alright and would probably help you out if properly incentivized ;)

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The pumps around here in the middle state have all muted their ads or at least have the volumes turned way down. When I drive somewhere else they catch me off guard.

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• EldestMalk@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Some of the fuel pumps have a hidden mute option. The 2nd button from the top right usually mutes them for me.

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  • The_Hideous_Orgalorg@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve tried all the buttons with no luck. But also, I’m just going to vote with my wallet and stop doing business with them for doing stupid stuff like that.

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