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butter@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is exactly why I stopped watching Twitch. It was the only service I tolerated ads on. Until they hit a point where the frequency and number of ads were just unbearable and I haven’t opened the site since.

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  • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Like one person uses them responsibly, like specifically for bathroom breaks, forces them at specific times so people don’t miss out on content.

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    • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Twitch also requires you to do a certain number of ads per hour/amount of ad time per hour in order to hit the partnership levels for decent pay. Otherwise, IIRC, Twitch puts their own ads in and the streamer doesn’t receive any revenue from the ads.

      I think Thor over at Pirate Software did a video on it back when that whole “Twitch Adpocalypse” drama was happening.

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      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, the issue is that if you don’t run ads, Twitch will just put their own in before your stream starts. And this absolutely kills any sort of discoverability for your channel; If new viewers have to watch 90 seconds of ads before they can even see your stream, they’ll just bail.

        So for the sake of growing your channel, it’s actually better to run ads. Because then your viewers aren’t immediately blasted by a ton of unskippable ads as soon as they start your stream.

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      • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thor is the one person I was referencing

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  • gon@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why not just use an adblock?

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    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Doesn’t work on Twitch; They embed the ads directly in the stream.

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      • gon@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh, is that right? I basically only watch 1 channel and I’m subbed, so I guess I just never noticed… I tried to get an ad on Twitch for the past 30 minutes watching several streamers though and didn’t get a single one.

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      • jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Alternate Player for Twitch on firefox makes the stream load for a few seconds and makes it a little pixelated for a few seconds, but I’ve never seen an ad on it, and the feed is nearly continuous.

        Twitch adblocking could use a few more solutions, though.

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      • IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You can make a black screen to cover up the ads, you can’t skip it, but you can avoid seeing it.

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      • parmesan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Look up Twitch Ad Solutions, there’s a github page where you can find a couple different options. The Alternate Twitch player another commentor mentioned is what I use because I like the adjustable chat and auto-collect bits feature

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    • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ad block software doesn’t work on Twitch anymore because they embed the ads directly into the stream.

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