Twitch continues to deteriorate as a platform because what do you mean I can’t TAB OUT TO MY SECOND MONITOR DURING THE AD BREAK
I NEED TO FOCUS THE TAB AND THE WINDOW FOR THE AD TO PLAY???
Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."
Submitted 2 months ago by Beep@lemmus.org to [deleted]
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Deme@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
And here I actually thought that this shitty idea would stay in the realm of Black Mirror…
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
hOrni@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Drink verification can”.
chocrates@piefed.world 2 months ago
what is that from? it sounds familiar
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
4chan greentext
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 2 months ago
It’s a greentext from 2013 apparently. It can be found on reddit, and I’ve seen it here, but I doubt I could find it.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Pretty sure it’s from Futurama.
marcos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s from Demolition Man. An 80s sci-fi/action movie.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
For a better experience?? Actually hilarious.
JustJack23@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Yeah their experience, not yours
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I hate corpo speak so fucking much.
Overspark@piefed.social 2 months ago
Similar to “we care about your privacy” cookie popups that try to trick you into allowing them to violate your privacy.
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
With your agreement, we and our 3753 partners use cookies or similar technologies to store, access, and process your personal data
lasta@piefed.world 2 months ago
Churlish_Witness@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If it is publicly-traded, it will be enshittified. This is an ironclad, inviolable law.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I feel like what we’re witnessing is just the end of meaningful innovation in the IT field, so now comes the meaningless innovation.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If it is publicly-traded, it will be enshittified.
Well, thank goodness Elon Musk took Twitter private, amirite?
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Since it’s private, Elon could be content with a steady (adjusted for inflation) annual profit, which would allow him to make decisions that are good for the long-term health of the company.
He just sucks.
If it were public, he wouldn’t even have the option to not suck.
mEEGal@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TODAY, on BLACK MIRROR EPISODES in Real LIFE
I kid you not, there’s this BM episode where they train on indoor bikes and sleep in pods and have to watch the ad on the screen lest it screeches at them
FUCK YOU TWITCH 🤗💖
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
the episode was called: A Million Merits
RESUME VIEWING
RESUME VIEWING
RESUME VIEWING
j_elgato@leminal.space 2 months ago
Was an episode of Max Headroom where it was illegal to own an off-switch for your television.
40 years earlier, and still ahead of its time.
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 2 months ago
It was referenced in every episode, but one episode was about the people who had one.
trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Every dystopic shit that eventually happens in real life has been featured in a BM episode.
I am starting to suspect that either the authors of BM know something we don’t, or that some people are treating BM as some kind of an instruction manual.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
We’re a few years away from the first phase of “Be Right Back.”
shneancy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
unfortunately, when you get good sci-fi writers who use the medium to examine social tendencies & human psychology, then try to draw out a possible conclusion whilst also having the audience take a step back by introducing a fantastical element… you have a team of people who will predict the future, despite really not wanting to
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 2 months ago
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tech CEOs watched that series for inspiration for new products. They read 1984 for the same reason.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t care about any platform enough to be abused by it.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 months ago
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Them bitches let ya know if you were getting a text. Loved that shit.
Batmancer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I had that exact model. Had a real satisfying click on the knob when you turned it on.
GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Reminder that Sony has patented technology to force viewers into saying a certain phrase in order to continue past an advertisement. Sure, it sounds dystopian, but just look at how happy the little consumer looks in their patent image!
moonshadow@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Some patents are a crime against humanity.
invertedspear@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Fingers crossed this is a patent intended to prevent others from ever stooping to such evil, but it’s not like Sony has been clean when it comes to this kind of shit.
joyjoy@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Pay attention, because there will be a test.
Pringles@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
If it would allow you to end the commercial early, it would kind of be genius. “Watch this 2 minute ad or say ‘I love McDonald’s’ to immediately continue watching” is something that definitely would work. It would get these phrases or slogans ingrained while providing a better viewing experience.
Don’t get me wrong, I would hate it as much as
anyoneany other lemmy user. However from a marketing perspective it’s pretty solid while a significant percentage of the viewership would not only participate, but laud it as a good solution to skip the forced commercials.yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It sounds like fun.
Then the next wave is that the feature length advert will play. You can see the shortened version by shouting I LOVE MCDONALDS. Or you can skip entirely by showing the Camera the New McFood Deluxe and eating it.
These motherfuckers do not know the meaning of the words “dystopian hellscape”. There is no such thing as too much, too far, too invasive, too insidious. There is only “so what’s next for our marketing department?”
YourMomsTrashman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thank you, Pringles
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh no. Are you telling me that only Sony products will have this feature? Damn, sucks. Now what will I do?
ShittDickk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why the fuck does my browser need to send it the information that its muted or minimized?
hackitfast@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Firefox has plugins to spoof specific tabs as always active.
Astertheprince@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
You should link them so more people can find them.
Potatar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I need everyone to look at what you can do with HTML5 “game engines”. You want mouse poisiton? You want to know if the mouse is in on the page or not? Internet speed? Audio card codec?
If a 13 years old using the free version of construct3 can do it, capitalism can do it.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is why browser games don’t tend to work in Librewolf. Also why I use Librewolf.
1984@lemmy.today 2 months ago
You must be using one of those browsers from an ad company.
Astertheprince@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
There aren’t really any others though, every browser these days is made by a company with corporate interests in mind, either their own, or someone paying them.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Avoid minimizing or muting for a better experience” Wow, this is beyond nuts.
If i was a Twitch user, i’d dump this right now.
phaseshift@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Please drink verification can.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The more the internet progresses the more I feel like text only browsers are the way to go
1984@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Didnt you guys watch that black mirror episode? It was exactly like this. Look away from ads and you get punished.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
“for a better experience” lmao
i hope the IT stock market crashes so hard
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 2 months ago
for a better experience
LOL, fuck your brainwashing.
Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Twitch is a SOCIAL website, you chat with the streamer and they chat back. All these ads do is interrupt the conversation and it’s SICK to me. It ruins the entire experience. I don’t mind the pop up small ads, but the full screen ads with sound just trashed the entire conversation. Always seems to happen when I ask a streamer a question then BAM 6 full screen ads when the streamer starts to answer me. No, I’m not paying for turbo or a sub, I’m f*ing broke right now.
Object@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
superuser.com/…/how-can-i-make-a-tab-in-firefox-f…
Looks like it’s a decade old problem and the solution isn’t super clean.
angband@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This ad can’t play because I don’t watch twitch.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Okay, bye forever!
balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Fuck I though this was a satirical shitpost but it’s real. This seems like the last stop before that patent about yelling the company name to get back to your content…
brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
“After this Pepsi ad, go buy a can and scan the barcode to continue watching the show”
TwitchingCheese@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Use this extension: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…/ttv-lol-pro/
Run your own proxy that supports tons of VPNs: github.com/qdm12/gluetun
Set the VPN location to a country that doesn’t or can’t get ads (Costa Rica is a good one since they’re in the test region for 2k streaming).
Set the extension to use the proxy.
No more Twitch ads.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 months ago
I feel like viewing twitch on your second monitor is quite common. That window is almost always going to be out of focus. What a shitty short-sighted system
Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Soon enough social apps will use your selfie cam to track your eyes. Ads will only play when your eyes are engaged and pause if you’re not looking at the screen. Oh boy.
Same with TVs, the built in camera will see who’s watching, and Netflix, etc, will stop streaming when it sees 5 people watching when your account is only set for 4. Either one person leaves the room or you upgrade to continue watching.
iMastari@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I dropped them like a bad habit when they first implemented the advertisements. I have never looked back.
Ranulph@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
The best thing I ever installed was UBLOCK ORIGIN,the second best thing was Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Privacy Badger. I have not seen or been interupted by an AD in a decade
Sprinks@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Copy/paste of the steps i have posted in a friend group discord.
Block Twitch Ads without pausing stream Will not work in Chrome
In Ublock Origin Dashboard
- My filters (tab) --> Add twitch.tv##+js(twitch-videoad)
- Select Apply
- Settings (tab) --> Scroll to bottom of page
- Check I am an advanced user
- Select the cog to the right of the text I am an advanced user
- At the bottom of the page, locate userResourcesLocation
- Change it from unset to raw.githubusercontent.com/…/vaft.user.js
- If there is already a URL: At the end of the existing URL, add a space and then the above link
The_Hideous_Orgalorg@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I don’t understand how anyone can use the Internet without ublock. I have before, and am about to again, change fuel stations due to them installing those stupid ad playing pumps.
Damarus@feddit.org 2 months ago
Yeah but uBlock can’t or at least doesn’t block Twitch ads, so that doesn’t really apply here.
rozodru@piefed.world 2 months ago
it does but with Twitch it’s a constant battle. you can go for days or weeks on end and it’ll work great then boom a few days to a week and it won’t work anymore until the maintainers figure out yet another way to circumvent twitch ads.
It just got to a point for me where I just stopped using twitch. I mean the site overall and the content/streamers have just gotten a lot worse in the past few years and there’s really nothing on there anymore worth watching.
Redacted@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
You can add a little string of text to ublock and itll work again. Havent seen an ad nonconsentually in years on there
Occultist0178@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Of course it does, I have never seen an ad in Twitch, thus is it course in Firefox, don’t know how it works in Chrome with the messed up adblock system 🤷
SlyLycan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Those are so atrocious. I just found out the closest gas station near my house installed big ass screens on the pumps that are bigger than my largest tablet and have impressively loud speakers. The station previously didn’t have any video screens so when I passed by the screen to unscrew the gas cap, and it started blasting the ad I nearly jumped out of my skin.
I don’t have a clue where another gas station without the ad screens even is. Blegh 😮💨
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The ones around me have a big old mute button and I’ve gotten into the habit of hitting that button as gas starts to flow so I don’t hear more than a second or two of whatever garbage they’re playing
snooggums@piefed.world 2 months ago
The pumps around here in the middle state have all muted their ads or at least have the volumes turned way down. When I drive somewhere else they catch me off guard.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
must be expensive to have those screen, first time i saw those gas station “tvs” was during trumps 1st term, at least the news was playing a tthe time.
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Seeing those was one of the more dystopian experiences I had when visiting the US a while back. The entire concept was absolutely insane to me.
EldestMalk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Some of the fuel pumps have a hidden mute option. The 2nd button from the top right usually mutes them for me.
The_Hideous_Orgalorg@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’ve tried all the buttons with no luck. But also, I’m just going to vote with my wallet and stop doing business with them for doing stupid stuff like that.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Apparently car/house keys can fit into the speaker slots and kill the sound.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
it wont block twitch ads, they seed it to thier videos, so it somewhat unblockable. i heard its expensive, thats why google doesnt do it.