Submitted 2 weeks 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???
That’s crazy that twitch is now just as horrible as youtube, netflix, etc. Ad’s are absolutely destroying everything. I do my best to mute and avoid looking at all ads and it seems they are getting wise to that tactic as well. Horrible, horrible companies.
Nothing makes me want to buy their product less than intrusive ads.
I find it helps to raise your hand in front of the screen to block the ads when they start playing. It’s like a middle finger to the advertisement companies.
If I happen accros this; I’ll think very badly about whoever bought the ad.
Wow, so many people put streams on in the background and you can’t even do that on Twitch no more.
safe to say its dead then
There’s… There’s no way this is true, right? This is fake news? Please tell me this is fake news.
LOL, why would anyone be retarded enough to watch?
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.
Joke’s on them. I will NEVER watch an ad. I wouldn’t use twitch anyway (because amazon), but I’m even less inclined to use it now that you HAVE to watch ads. Fuck Bozos.
Really makes you wonder the addiction people have to watching streams that they aren’t immediately leaving the service for good after seeing that.
And, they appear to have partnered with persona in certain cases: opencritic.com/…/twitch-reportedly-using-persona-…
They’ve blocked Twitch in Korea. I don’t miss it.
Wtf, this is real?
It’s almost like make eye contact while watching the AD. Lol what a dystopia.
Buy our product our we will kill your entire family forcing you to watch starting with your children, then your spouse and then finally you, slowly and painfully. Rayban Meta. New tech. Same iconic frames.
Not so distant future.
It can use AI+facial recognition+flock cameras to show you your daughter alone walking to school.
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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.
That doesn’t sound like my concern.
The name Twitch sounds like someone going through a withdrawal from powerful substances.
I’m so old I think of this
What’s the alternatives? Non-self hosting, and you know what, self-hosting because why not
Owncast is the self hosted stream thing. It has some rudimentary federation capibilities, but nowhere near the ease discovery of twitch.
I know some streamers that have an owncast, expired_popsicle uses debian Linux and has one. (It’s tech/linux streamers because of course).
Firefox (derivate) + uBlock?
that doesn’t work for twitch unfortunately :(
there used to be a different Firefox extension for just twitch which worked but idk what happened to it.
The way it worked was by taking the tiny steam of the creator that shows up when an ad plays and just scaled it up to cover the ad while muting it.
well, it was an idea…
I’m sure there is a way to prevent this screen in particular, but IIRC Twitch simply doesn’t stream to you when there’s ads playing, or it’s hardcoded into the stream itself or something, so you’d be looking at a small audio-less preview if anything … & correct me if I’m wrong. I stopped using Twitch entirely because of this, though.
You’re gonna sit there and watch those PrizePicks and AI generated Kalshi ads and like it!
Why do they keep shooting themselves in the foot? Will enough people put up with this shit to keep them in business?
I dunno, I haven’t looked at the site in probably five years or longer, but maybe they think they can hold out long enough that the next generation will just accept this is how it is? Is that the plan?
oh well, the last time i was on Twitch it still had some goldfishes playing Street Fighter 2. i guess i’m not coming back anytime soon
thier ads are already unblockable.
at this point just stream to youtube, at least there you can block this bs
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Twitch soon: Drink your verification can