Submitted 1 day ago by Beep@lemmus.org to [deleted]
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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???
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.
Yeah but uBlock can’t or at least doesn’t block Twitch ads, so that doesn’t really apply here.
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.
You can add a little string of text to ublock and itll work again. Havent seen an ad nonconsentually in years on there
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 🤷
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 😮💨
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
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.
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.
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.
Apparently car/house keys can fit into the speaker slots and kill the sound.
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.
Some of the fuel pumps have a hidden mute option. The 2nd button from the top right usually mutes them for me.
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.
Why the fuck does my browser need to send it the information that its muted or minimized?
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.
Firefox has plugins to spoof specific tabs as always active.
You should link them so more people can find them.
You must be using one of those browsers from an ad company.
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.
Because Browsers are corporate-built garbage which are designed with corporate interests in mind, same reason they choose to send good fingerprinting canvas data instead of sending randomized garbage every new session.
It’s been a standard feature for a very long time I’m kind of surprised they’ve only just started making use of it but this kind of thing.
A lot of sites that play sounds will stop when you tap out of them otherwise they’re just plain sounds in the background and that’s kind of annoying.
If it is publicly-traded, it will be enshittified. This is an ironclad, inviolable law.
I feel like what we’re witnessing is just the end of meaningful innovation in the IT field, so now comes the meaningless innovation.
If it is publicly-traded, it will be enshittified.
Well, thank goodness Elon Musk took Twitter private, amirite?
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.
Them bitches let ya know if you were getting a text. Loved that shit.
I had that exact model. Had a real satisfying click on the knob when you turned it on.
And here I actually thought that this shitty idea would stay in the realm of Black Mirror…
I don’t care about any platform enough to be abused by it.
“Drink verification can”.
what is that from? it sounds familiar
4chan greentext
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.
Pretty sure it’s from Futurama.
It’s from Demolition Man. An 80s sci-fi/action movie.
Firefox (derivate) + uBlock?
I’m sure there is a way to prevent this screen in particular, but IIRC Twitch simply doesn’t stream to you when there’s ads playing, or it’s hardcoded into the stream itself or something, so you’d be looking at a small audio-less preview if anything … & correct me if I’m wrong. I stopped using Twitch entirely because of this, though.
For a better experience?? Actually hilarious.
Yeah their experience, not yours
I hate corpo speak so fucking much.
Similar to “we care about your privacy” cookie popups that try to trick you into allowing them to violate your privacy.
With your agreement, we and our 3753 partners use cookies or similar technologies to store, access, and process your personal data
“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.
doesn’t amazon own twitch? It’s no surprise that they’re enshittifying at an alarming rate.
I wish I had an account so I could have the satisfaction of deleting it right now.
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 🤗💖
the episode was called: A Million Merits
RESUME VIEWING
RESUME VIEWING
RESUME VIEWING
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.
It was referenced in every episode, but one episode was about the people who had one.
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.
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
We’re a few years away from the first phase of “Be Right Back.”
Tech CEOs watched that series for inspiration for new products. They read 1984 for the same reason.
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!
Some patents are a crime against humanity.
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.
Please drink verification can.
“for a better experience” lmao
i hope the IT stock market crashes so hard
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…
The more the internet progresses the more I feel like text only browsers are the way to go
I dropped them like a bad habit when they first implemented the advertisements. I have never looked back.
LOL, why would anyone be retarded enough to watch?
for a better experience
LOL, fuck your brainwashing.
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.
You’re gonna sit there and watch those PrizePicks and AI generated Kalshi ads and like it!
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
“After this Pepsi ad, go buy a can and scan the barcode to continue watching the show”
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.
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.
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.
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
1984@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
Didnt you guys watch that black mirror episode? It was exactly like this. Look away from ads and you get punished.