no stream is worth watching the same McDonald's ad ten times an hour
If you have a VPN, try switching to Venezuela if available. I stopped getting ads doing this.
The real life pro tips are always in the comments :attlee-fedora: :gold-ancom:
ads for live content is pretty wild to me. Like i can kind of excuse, as much as I can ever excuse ads which is scarcely at all but still, like a banner at the bottom of the video that pops up from time to time. But like, i feel like live content shouldn't be interrupted unless there's breaks baked into the scheduling.
anyway, maybe something like pihole or adguard home would work?
I only use it for my actual friends who never get more than 5 viewers usually and for a few cool DJ streams when I feel like chatting with people. I've been going to a couple streams for a couple years now so it's cool to recognize ppl and what not. Aside from that I cannot stand twitch and especially twitch culture. It's just sooo bad
maybe it's a chrome issue, didn't google fuck with the amount of websites the browser can block?
kind of agree
I'll watch stream vods sometimes if they're entertaining (mostly just vinesauce) but I can never watch streams live because you can't skip around so there's bound to be boring downtime so I inevitably click out and do something else eventually. I don't know why streams are so popular with zoomers because zoomer-brain seems ill-suited to them.
I watch them while doing things. I keep some foreign-language streams going because I find the streamer cool and they're just friendly background noise.
I've watched some chess grandmaster speed chess games. The streams were okay. Many players don't make much of effort to enunciate clearly. It sounds like they're got a gobstopper in their mouth. And they don't usually bother to explain much either... "Why didn't I move the knight to b3?" Yeah, why? I looked really good to me. Gnomic utterance: "There were obvious tactical limitations." Ah, yes. Obvious.
It sounds like they’re got a gobstopper in their mouth.
well they're probably from the UK
There are some cool content creators on Twitch. I found myself watching a lot of Bawkbasoup lately, he seems like a pretty nice guy and plays a shitton of old Resident Evil games, which I love. And he has no g*mer moments!!!
Also, I was thinking of streaming on Twitch sometime, can streamers make it so their viewers don't get ads? Because if I can't turn ads off for them I'm not doing it.
I might be wrong but I think you have to be at a certain level before you have any authority over the ads in your stream.
The only control streamers get is when they manually roll ads, pre-roll ads go on a 20-30m cooldown so you're encouraged to do regular ad breaks so Twitch gets their ad revenue or people will instantly be turned away from your stream.
You can use Twire if you are on mobile, its like Newpipe but for Twitch, it worked pretty last time I tried and there are no ads. It is also on F-droid. Here's the github:
https://github.com/twireapp/Twire
This is the best method, VPNs are currently the only way to bypass twitch ads right now. Just keep in mind that they could theoretically read all your internet activity going through Firefox/Chrome the same way any VPN can
Just keep in mind that they could theoretically read all your internet activity going through Firefox/Chrome the same way any VPN can
It only gets permission for twitch's domains and their own domain, so the only thing it can read is basically your twitch activity, which is basically a given.
