https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-page-visibility/
same for chrome based browsers. an API that should never have existed in the first place.
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Basically stopped watching twitch bwcause of the stupid fucking unskippable ads... and I'm glad i did, I'm never going back, fuck them and their bs ads. Much more free time :)
I must be lucky, I've not seen any ads on twitch.
Also, I don't use twitch.
Solution: stop using Twitch.
The best life hacks are always in the comments
ublock origin/twitch ad solutions on desktop, xtra or twire on mobile (for android, at least). either solution blocks ads for good.
That's gonna take a whopping 10 lines of userscript to defeat, hell I already had to use one to stop them from dropping the video quality when unfocused (so I could watch streams in PiP properly)
What's the user script? I'm not familiar with Twitch and currently too lazy to dig into all of it.
Avoid minimizing or muting Twitch for a better experience.
Avoid enshittifying Twitch for a better experience.
We're getting closer and closer to this:
Holy fuck it's real
rofl why does the patent have the viewer stand up and cheer it
to show those people with difficulties standing who the real bosses are
Drink verification can.
That's a full boycott from me, dawg.
Not even once. I'm good watching recycled twitch clips wherever they crop up. Fuck your business model with a pitchfork.
I guess I'll continue never using twitch.
I too shall continue my boycott that begin in 1981
gets arrested for using ad-blocking technologies
I stopped going to the theater because I had to pay to watch commercials and advertisements.
I stopped because morons can't stay off their phones for 5 bloody minutes.
I already saw this Black Mirror episode
Yeah a website should not be able to tell where I am looking at or if my audio is muted or not.
But Bezos needs more money right, because he doesn't have enough yet.
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Well, so much for considering a return to twitch as an entertainment option
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What I find stupid is that people will keep using it after all the shit they are doing. I mean, it's twitch, you can live without it. And yet, people will accept this bullshit and keep going because the alternative of changing platform is just too bothersome for them. In the end, I'm starting to think we have the internet we deserve.
I feel like people are eager to change and make new habits but won't go places where there is no content.
It's the streamers and youtubers who need to move, but they won't because of of the other platforms don't have similar monetization
Yeah exactly. The culture and the people make twitch, not the platform.
Same with YouTube - I could switch to peertube but I would be missing out on so many creators and so much content I genuinely wanna watch.
To me this always boils down to "it's not worth it to live a boring life just out of principle". I get that if everyone switched we'd be better off but we're just not there yet.
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So many platforms are like this. I think it's because content creators their business tied into these systems.
If the viewers dry up they’ll stop being paid and leave.
It’s on every user to dump the platform.
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I think the real alternatives are Peertube or Owncast, because they are non commercially and FOSS and can be self hosted and federated.
In the long run, every commercial platform that has enough users will enshittify, that's just capitalism. That's why we have to break the cycle and reject corporate social media.
IT equivalent to 'Eyelids glued open'
Lmao fuck twitch
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