From the twitch pages
The desktop web browser experience of twitch.tv and supporting sites, officially support the latest two versions of Google Chrome, the latest two versions of Mozilla Firefox, the most recent version of Microsoft Edge, and the most recent version of Apple Safari.
https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/supported-browsers?language=en_US
What's your browser version OP, so we can rule out whether it's just a version issue
so I checked and it was the latest version, the problem was firefox's enhanced security option, it works after I disabled it. https://lemmy.ml/comment/2886486
Wouldn't that still be Twitch's fault for not supporting a browser with added security features? Or am I misunderstanding something?
I understand that from a technical level. But the solution is "we'll make it work" and not "either use a less secure tool, or lower security on what you are using". In my opinion this is a problem that Twitch needs to fix, not work around.
I had the same problem as Op.
for over a year i couldnt log into my twitch account cause it kept pissing and moaning about my browser not being supported, despite being on a supported version and browser.
persisted through reformats, through LiveCD tryouts, different physical computers, browser resets/reinstalls, and with all addons uninstalled and/or disabled.
Only recently started working again for some reason.
I'd wager twitch is just shit at shit.
thank god I wasnt a streamer wasnt financially dependent on it.
Same for me. I even tried connecting through Serbia1 with my VPN, and it still works.
- Which, legend has it, results in no ads being served via Twitch
Does that work with Serbia as well? :o I thought it was only Russia, hopefully my VPN has Serbia
I honestly haven't heard Russia mentioned, just Serbia, but could be
It's hard for me to verify since I don't watch much of anything on Twitch that's not just personal friends streaming a game
Y'all should check out twitch streamlink gui, or other alternate front ends, regardless. https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink-twitch-gui
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I block Twitch from my Firefox, how 'bout dat?
Seriously, I've never gotten a second of joy from Twitch, it's just the most pointless thing imaginable. And even if I wanted to use it, I would be unwilling based on the fact the site assaults you with random streams that you can't turn off as soon as you go there.
I'll never understand why people want to watch other people play a game normally, when you could just play the game yourself.
Now speedrunning videos make sense and are the only kind of game streaming I'll watch. But not on Twitch, cause who wants to watch someone fuck up and restart the game for hours on end, when you can just see the highlights on YouTube?
Exactly. You're getting tons of downvotes but I agree. I like "funny" gamers collected moments, like Dunkey videos, and speed runs, but I have zero interest in watching normal people just playing and annoyingly reading their chat window aloud.
I love when pages tell me my browser is not supported and it's just the agent switcher choosing win7 with internet explorer 8
Working fine for me. Do you have an older version installed or a fork?
update: It still works with firefox, the culprit was firefox's enhanced security thing in the settings. It works now after I disabled it.
Bold move. There’s not anything on there worth me disabling my adblocks, cookie blockers, etc that I wont see in clips in youtube before they pull the same stuff
