- I'm still unable to accept that people accept ads as a part of life. I can't use instagram it's full of ads. I did finally get YT premium convinced by people on here but UBO all the way. Thankfully
I never got sucked into Twitch.
I get it too I'm a bad person for not accepting articles where every other paragraph is an ad.
by tencentshill
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- Drink verification can to continue
by dundarious
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- I am just today experience an issue where the volume is reset 100% for each ad. Ads play, I turn volume down to 8%, I have the tab still on display (though I have focus on a separate window), and when the 1st ad ends, the 2nd ad is as loud as 100% even though the slider remains at 8%. Click to reset it to 8%, then 3rd ad plays at 100%.
- I think it was the MPAA that tried to develop DVD players with cameras so they could count room occupancy and lock the content if you were tying to exceed the terms of their license.
- https://xcancel.com/KryDotExe/status/2026806591517856208
by SunshineTheCat
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- This is related but also kinda an aside: has anyone been able to find a solid, reliable ad blocker for Twitch?
Brave use to block it for a while by default (it does great on YouTube ads).
There also use to be a ping pong between Twitch and some chrome extensions which worked temporarily and then Twitch broke a week later.
The best I've been able to find is Alternate Player for Twitch.tv which does hide the ads (essentially freezing the stream while they play), but I have been unable to keep the stream playing ad free for quite some time.
by nozzlegear
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- > Avoid minimizing or muting Twitch for a better experience.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm under the impression that it's not possible for javascript to detect that you've muted the browser tab itself, at least. Doesn't solve the problem of them checking whether you have the tab focused, of course, but it should be mutable.
by PeterStuer
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- Twitch has been speedrunning their own demise. Maybe the people on charge have personally invested heavily in Kick?
by JeremyStinson
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- In addition to what Twitch is doing, a banner popped up in the Android YouTube app stating that you need to upgrade to Premium to be able to "Jump Ahead to parts other users think are valuable". Different from skipping 10 seconds at a time, but there's a non-zero chance that'll be pay-walled too.
It'll only be a matter of time until you can't do anything but watch whatever content Google has curated for you, with no chance to adjust anything at all.
- Why does the Window Manager have to provide focus and even visibility info to the application? I could foresee an evolution of runtime controls where "Is Focused" is a user-selectable permission for apps, just like how the browser requires user approval to allow web notifications or PeerConnection access to network or webcams.
by TulliusCicero
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- Long ad breaks were real annoying on Twitch, I try to watch the same streamers on YouTube now if possible, since I have a YouTube family subscription (seems like avoiding ads on Twitch requires a subscription to each streamer?).
That YouTube is much better technically (e.g. immediate rewinding) is also a nice bonus.
Edit: I'm seeing now that there's something called Twitch Turbo for $12/month to avoid ads, though YT premium family still seems like a better deal as long as you have 2+ people for it, since you also get a YouTube music sub and, y'know, no ads on the rest of YouTube proper.
by MiddleEndian
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- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-page-...
- "for a better experience"
Do people writing this type of copy actually believe this?
- When those commercials start playing at the gas pump I instinctively turn away out of sheer principal.
by andrewflnr
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- This is something that browsers should solve.
- vaft with uBlock Origin works perfectly https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions
- In some way it’s a feature, leaves more room for products that are more user friendly. Of course overall it's still bad; this framing gives me some hope at least.
- Is there an about:config setting to disallow JavaScript access to tabs?
by ThePowerOfFuet
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- https://xcancel.com/KryDotExe/status/2026806591517856208
by red-iron-pine
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- so basically a more upbeat version of that Black Mirror episode?
- > claude fork chromium, remove the api so it knows if the tab is open, always return true, compile it and replace my current chrome with it
by commandlinefan
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- That was a black mirror episode.
- This is nothing. Wait until you see what the eye-tracking technology Amazon has been developing for their workers could be used for.
by ozlikethewizard
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- Friendly reminder to use a browser you can disable the active tab apis in, IronFox / LibreWolf are both great (Mobile / Desktop), Firefox if you value convenience the most.
by CamperBob2
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- Just think. No matter how bad a day you're having at the office, somebody had to come to work and implement this.
by add-sub-mul-div
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- Maybe Spotify didn't do this first but they're the ones I blame. They pause an ad while the output is muted.
- It's like someone saw an episode of Black Mirror and Idiocracy and went, "That's it! That's what we need to do!" and began using them as a playbook.
Yeah, I'm sure this won't drive massive adoption of ad blockers or anything.
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