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Rena
I had one (1) message in Discord deleted and proceeded to make a huge, huge mess about how it was a violation of free speech and how moderators are supposed to be spam janitors and nobody should have the right to tell me not to talk about school shootings
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Posted on 03-29-19 05:19:28 PM Link | Quote
Honestly, I'm only surprised it took this long. They're now inserted into the actual video stream, instead of being a separate stream. As a result they now show up on third party players.

Apparently the uBlock Origin devs have been looking into it and created a temporary workaround, skipping segments in the playlist file (yes, streaming uses a playlist, don't ask me why), but they were clever enough to not even serve the actual stream until ~6 seconds in, so there's still a delay. No doubt they'll also keep playing cat and mouse and try to make it more difficult to identify the segments.

For me, the result has been that I've just stopped watching Twitch entirely. Since as far as I know there is no option, not even paid, to not have them, and I'm sure as hell not watching them. (I was even considering starting to stream something, but, welp)

(And even if I'm wrong and there is a global ad-free option, tbh, not worth it to me. I'll pay for features I actually want, but not for "we'll stop doing this annoying thing, promise".)

Another interesting side effect is that all the third party viewing apps are getting bombed with negative reviews because people think they've started inserting ads, when really they just aren't bypassing them anymore. I imagine the official statement would be something like "they were breaking ToS by not showing ads in the first place" but I do wonder what will happen to them.

Thoughts?

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Shining Wing

Shyguy
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Posted on 04-02-19 07:13:19 AM Link | Quote
They have a subscription service that gets rid of the ads (and gives a few other mostly useless features), but I'd say it's pretty overpriced for what it is. Also note that that service (Twitch Turbo) is a separate distinct service from their other one (Twitch Prime) which gives you game loot. That one doesn't remove ads. For some reason.

I don't really like Twitch much. Though I suppose I kinda just hate Amazon as a whole, really. But especially Twitch.

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dotUser
From the Grave
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From: a particularly peculiar tiny store's back shelf

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Posted on 04-02-19 12:31:46 PM Link | Quote
They've had the biggest streamers with injected ads for the last year or two, I'm surprised nobody noticed.

It's too bad hitbox 'merged' and went entirely to shit. They were the only true contender.

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Rena
I had one (1) message in Discord deleted and proceeded to make a huge, huge mess about how it was a violation of free speech and how moderators are supposed to be spam janitors and nobody should have the right to tell me not to talk about school shootings
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Posted on 04-03-19 01:51:41 AM Link | Quote
I didn't realize Turbo was still a thing distinct from Prime, though from what I'm hearing, these bypass even that.

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DarkWitchClaire

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Posted on 04-03-19 09:53:28 PM Link | Quote
AFAIK no ads is the only feature exclusive to turbo, which just makes it even worse.

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Posted on 04-05-19 09:18:45 PM Link | Quote
I found an add-on that seems to block these kinds of ads, if I'm not mistaken?

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Rambly

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Posted on 04-09-19 11:35:20 PM Link | Quote
i haven't actually watched a twitch stream in ages and the only ones i do watch are ones by close friends of mine

judging from how gamified and tacky and shitty and information-overloady their design's been lately, coupled with this news, i don't really feel bad about not giving them my page views

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Posted on 04-14-19 07:45:45 PM Link | Quote
6 seconds doesn't bother me much. I'm concerned for what will happen when it's truly a seamless thing, though. Basically the end of my interaction with speedrunning as a hobby... Though I guess that's not such a horrible thing, the way twitch has poisoned it already.
Rena
I had one (1) message in Discord deleted and proceeded to make a huge, huge mess about how it was a violation of free speech and how moderators are supposed to be spam janitors and nobody should have the right to tell me not to talk about school shootings
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Posted on 06-13-19 05:14:48 PM Link | Quote
Yeah, that's how I felt before, but I wasn't sure how to express it. I don't feel like I could just stream for fun without caring about money. They've made it so grubby now. To say nothing of the incredible toxicity levels of the "community"...

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Posted on 06-13-19 05:34:28 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Rena
(yes, streaming uses a playlist, don't ask me why)

That's how HLS works, mostly.

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DarkWitchClaire

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Posted on 06-16-19 09:10:23 PM Link | Quote
Even just using the site is unbearable without FFZ, and who knows what the next change will break.

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Posted on 07-06-19 12:14:09 PM Link | Quote
Seems everyone is copying the Spotify and YouTube 'pay for proper usability' these days. Can't wait until Twitter starts locking all their new features behind a paywall or two (like Discord seems to).
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