Kind of makes sense - casting is usually a webstream without extra dev effort. I’m not sure if you still can, but I used to circumvent twitch ads by casting from my phone. Not to excuse their shitty behaviour; I gave up on them years ago and started hosting my own content.
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shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Also, on the “standard with ads” tier, they’ve removed the ability to chromecast.
kif@lemmy.nz 4 months ago
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Wow what a dumb way to basically gatekeep me from even moving to the ad tier.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 4 months ago
The ads are added in the app. If you cast, the Chromecast can’t add apps (yet) so they’d have to make ad streams instead, and switch between the streams show-ad-show which would take several seconds of loading screen each way and so on. Which is a level of fuckery even they shied away from.
TLDR they can’t (easily) show ads during casting.