Submitted 5 hours ago by Beep@lemmus.org to [deleted]
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Twitch continues to deteriorate as a platform because what do you mean I can’t TAB OUT TO MY SECOND MONITOR DURING THE AD BREAK
I NEED TO FOCUS THE TAB AND THE WINDOW FOR THE AD TO PLAY???
TODAY, on BLACK MIRROR EPISODES in Real LIFE
I kid you not, there’s this BM episode where they train on indoor bikes and sleep in pods and have to watch the ad on the screen lest it screeches at them
FUCK YOU TWITCH 🤗💖
the episode was called: A Million Merits
RESUME VIEWING
RESUME VIEWING
RESUME VIEWING
Tech CEOs watched that series for inspiration for new products. They read 1984 for the same reason.
Was an episode of Max Headroom where it was illegal to own an off-switch for your television.
40 years earlier, and still ahead of its time.
Every dystopic shit that eventually happens in real life has been featured in a BM episode.
I am starting to suspect that either the authors of BM know something we don’t, or that some people are treating BM as some kind of an instruction manual.
We’re a few years away from the first phase of “Be Right Back.”
I don’t understand how anyone can use the Internet without ublock. I have before, and am about to again, change fuel stations due to them installing those stupid ad playing pumps.
Yeah but uBlock can’t or at least doesn’t block Twitch ads, so that doesn’t really apply here.
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.
You can add a little string of text to ublock and itll work again. Havent seen an ad nonconsentually in years on there
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 🤷
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 😮💨
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.
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
Some of the fuel pumps have a hidden mute option. The 2nd button from the top right usually mutes them for me.
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.
Use this extension: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…/ttv-lol-pro/
Run your own proxy that supports tons of VPNs: github.com/qdm12/gluetun
Set the VPN location to a country that doesn’t or can’t get ads (Costa Rica is a good one since they’re in the test region for 2k streaming).
Set the extension to use the proxy.
No more Twitch ads.
And here I actually thought that this shitty idea would stay in the realm of Black Mirror…
“Drink verification can”.
what is that from? it sounds familiar
4chan greentext
For a better experience?? Actually hilarious.
Similar to “we care about your privacy” cookie popups that try to trick you into allowing them to violate your privacy.
With your agreement, we and our 3753 partners use cookies or similar technologies to store, access, and process your personal data
I hate corpo speak so fucking much.
Yeah their experience, not yours
for a better experience
LOL, fuck your brainwashing.
If I happen accros this; I’ll think very badly about whoever bought the ad.
superuser.com/…/how-can-i-make-a-tab-in-firefox-f…
Looks like it’s a decade old problem and the solution isn’t super clean.
A long time ago I took some online classes, and the teacher could see if the software used for the classes was not in focus. I used a VM to run it, and as long as it was in focus on the VM the VM didn’t have to be in focus itself
I feel like viewing twitch on your second monitor is quite common. That window is almost always going to be out of focus. What a shitty short-sighted system
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Incredibly, this image has sound, I can hear this image! Yeah, pretty much I can hear the high pitched tone that plays when Bingham "Bing" Madsen dares to look away from the screen and close the eyes during the WraithBabes ad break. Resume watching, resume watching.
There’s… There’s no way this is true, right? This is fake news? Please tell me this is fake news.
Haven’t had the opportunity yet, but Firefox allows you to block the page visibility API. I wonder if that circumvents these Twitch shenanigans.
It’s like they really don’t want me to use their platform anymore
That’s not it. They think you don’t have a choice anymore and will use their platform regardless.
Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 33 minutes ago
Twitch is a SOCIAL website, you chat with the streamer and they chat back. All these ads do is interrupt the conversation and it’s SICK to me. It ruins the entire experience. I don’t mind the pop up small ads, but the full screen ads with sound just trashed the entire conversation. Always seems to happen when I ask a streamer a question then BAM 6 full screen ads when the streamer starts to answer me. No, I’m not paying for turbo or a sub, I’m f*ing broke right now.