Wow, so many people put streams on in the background and you can't even do that on Twitch no more.
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Joke’s on them, my computer doesn’t even know whether it’s muted or not.

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
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.
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.
I don't care about any platform enough to be abused by it.
Please drink verification can.
"Avoid minimizing or muting for a better experience" Wow, this is beyond nuts.
If i was a Twitch user, i'd dump this right now.
"for a better experience" lmao
i hope the IT stock market crashes so hard
The phrase "For a better experience" activates me like a sleeper cell to be highly alert to whatever product it came from and assume it's trying to screw me out of my money, attention, privacy, or all three.
i hope the IT stock market crashes so hard
This ^
The best thing I ever installed was UBLOCK ORIGIN,the second best thing was Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Privacy Badger. I have not seen or been interupted by an AD in a decade
It's almost like make eye contact while watching the AD. Lol what a dystopia.
The more the internet progresses the more I feel like text only browsers are the way to go
I tend to agree. We've seen a movement back to -
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more insidious advertising practices. They render the Internet useless in the same ways that incessant pop ups did in the early 2000s.
Reminder that Sony has patented technology to force viewers into saying a certain phrase in order to continue past an advertisement. Sure, it sounds dystopian, but just look at how happy she excited the little consumer is to enthusiastically shout the name of one of his favorite corporations!

Mentioning this without including the verification can story should be illegal

Some patents are a crime against humanity.
Fingers crossed this is a patent intended to prevent others from ever stooping to such evil, but it’s not like Sony has been clean when it comes to this kind of shit.
Oh no. Are you telling me that only Sony products will have this feature? Damn, sucks. Now what will I do?

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
"After this Pepsi ad, go buy a can and scan the barcode to continue watching the show"
Soon enough social apps will use your selfie cam to track your eyes. Ads will only play when your eyes are engaged and pause if you're not looking at the screen. Oh boy.
Same with TVs, the built in camera will see who's watching, and Netflix, etc, will stop streaming when it sees 5 people watching when your account is only set for 4. Either one person leaves the room or you upgrade to continue watching.
Please drink verification can, etc. etc.
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.
Genuine social connection is not possible on corporate mediated platforms friend, a simulation thereof is bait in their trap and parasocial relationships are manufactured to slip their messaging past your filters. I implore you to go outside, or at least start building connection with strangers in niches like this vs would-be celebrities in what is essentially a slaughterhouse for processing lonely dudes
I avoid big channels, anything more then 20 people or so and I go to a smaller channel.
I made good friends over the years on twitch.
Also the internet makes money mostly with ads, which is a way to manipulate people's opinions on things.
Twitch is more of a parasocial website in most cases though, unless you're watching exceptionally small streamers