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???
Copy/paste of the steps i have posted in a friend group discord.
Block Twitch Ads without pausing stream Will not work in Chrome
In Ublock Origin Dashboard
- My filters (tab) --> Add twitch.tv##+js(twitch-videoad)
- Select Apply
- Settings (tab) --> Scroll to bottom of page
- Check I am an advanced user
- Select the cog to the right of the text I am an advanced user
- At the bottom of the page, locate userResourcesLocation
- Change it from unset to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions/master/vaft/vaft.user.js
- If there is already a URL: At the end of the existing URL, add a space and then the above link
Twitch soon: Drink your verification can
Really makes you wonder the addiction people have to watching streams that they aren’t immediately leaving the service for good after seeing that.
They’ve blocked Twitch in Korea. I don’t miss it.
That doesn’t sound like my concern. Ads, everywhere, all the time, for everything, does sound like my concern.
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?
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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.
other than Main official of the game companies, STREAMERS themselves started leaning politically and grifting from it.
You can add a little string of text to ublock and itll work again. Havent seen an ad nonconsentually in years on there
Dont say you can do it, and not share it man. Spill the beans
Here you go fellow seafarer https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions
Ill link it when i get off work
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Tell me and only me
Gent bent, idiot
Theirs a script on github to block twitch ads, works flawlessly
Of course it does, I have never seen an ad in Twitch, this is in Firefox, don’t know how it works in Chrome with the messed up adblock system 🤷
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.
Oh it seems that you are right, I didn’t know that, I thought it was just blocked through ublock. Thanks for your comment
No worries
ublock can too block twitch ads, because it can run adsolutions itself. it’s even on that page you linked.
Yeah that’s true but it’s really just a method to run a more complex userscript, which isn’t really comparable to the element blocking rules that uBlock normally handles.
I used to support testing the adblock solutions from Pixeltris some years ago when Twitch actively starting fighting adblockers. It turned out the only reliable way is to use a proxy or VPN of a country that doesnt serve ads via amazons ad system. Mostly small countries where it’s not worth place advertisments. I am using eithe czech, polish or Luxembourg IPs and usually dont get any ads this way anymore as there are no corporstions using their af service.
Thank you. I just stopped using that website overall, because of all the ads thrown down my throat.
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 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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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 ;)
i fucking love you for this
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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.
must be expensive to have those screen, first time i saw those gas station “tvs” was during trumps 1st term, at least the news was playing a tthe time.
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.
What maybe surprised me the most is that they weren’t vandalised. Like, if my nearest gas station had one of those you can bet that I would get a ski mask and go smash them up at night when the station was closed. After a couple rounds I can only assume they would get the message and stop installing them. I’m honestly surprised that people doing just that isn’t more common in the US.
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.
Apparently car/house keys can fit into the speaker slots and kill the sound.
it wont block twitch ads, they add it to thier videos, so it somewhat unblockable. i heard its expensive, thats why google doesnt do it.
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
It’s a greentext from 2013 apparently. It can be found on reddit, and I’ve seen it here, but I doubt I could find it.
Turned out to be real easy, I uploaded in another comment.
Pretty sure it’s from Futurama.
It’s from Demolition Man. An 80s sci-fi/action movie.
Oh, right! As everybody knows, 2013 was years before the 1980s decade, and so this is the original source that inspired the movie!
I don’t recall that in demolition man. I just watched it a month ago. I’ll turn it on tonight
as an aside, that’s a great movie.
No its not.
For a better experience?? Actually hilarious.
Yeah their experience, not yours
I hate corpo speak so fucking much.
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
do you even Cookie-Auto-Delete, bro?
If it is publicly-traded, it will be enshittified. This is an ironclad, inviolable law.
I feel like what we’re witnessing is just the end of meaningful innovation in the IT field, so now comes the meaningless innovation.
Don’t forget private equity!
If it is publicly-traded, it will be enshittified.
Well, thank goodness Elon Musk took Twitter private, amirite?
Since it’s private, Elon could be content with a steady (adjusted for inflation) annual profit, which would allow him to make decisions that are good for the long-term health of the company.
He just sucks.
If it were public, he wouldn’t even have the option to not suck.
Which is why SpaceX is about to suck once they IPO :(
The original stated plan was no IPO until Mars transits were normal.
Yet another thing Elon lied about. Shocking.
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: 15 Million Merits
RESUME VIEWING
RESUME VIEWING
RESUME VIEWING
** 15 million merits
Ah shit thanks
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.
It was referenced in every episode, but one episode was about the people who had one.
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.”
years? i’d be deeply surprised if it wasn’t happening already
unfortunately, when you get good sci-fi writers who use the medium to examine social tendencies & human psychology, then try to draw out a possible conclusion whilst also having the audience take a step back by introducing a fantastical element… you have a team of people who will predict the future, despite really not wanting to
Tech CEOs watched that series for inspiration for new products. They read 1984 for the same reason.
Came out in 2011. Very prescient.
Damn. Where did that 15 years go? 😭
Nowhere. They’re right where they were. It’s just that you have moved on.
Im stoned but that hit me heavy
