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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish ·
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Twitch forces users to watch ads they can't click away from

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Twitch forces users to watch ads they can't click away from

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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish ·
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Twitch is testing a new way to experience ads when you pause a stream. But viewers aren't happy about the change.

Alternarives:

https://www.smashcast.tv/

https://nimo.tv/

https://dlive.tv/

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    We’re getting closer and closer to this:

  • Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz
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    Avoid minimizing or muting Twitch for a better experience.

    Avoid enshittifying Twitch for a better experience.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    I stopped going to the theater because I had to pay to watch commercials and advertisements.

  • Auster@thebrainbin.org
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    gets arrested for using ad-blocking technologies

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    3 hours ago

    Drink verification can.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
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    That’s a full boycott from me, dawg.

    Not even once. I’m good watching recycled twitch clips wherever they crop up. Fuck your business model with a pitchfork.

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  • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
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    I guess I’ll continue never using twitch.

    • GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I too shall continue my boycott that begin in 1981

  • yelling_at_cloud@programming.dev
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    4 hours ago

    I already saw this Black Mirror episode

  • MrSulu@lemmy.ml
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    IT equivalent to ‘Eyelids glued open’

  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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    2 hours ago

    Does watching Twitch through GrayJay get around this?

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    I think the real alternatives are Peertube or Owncast, because they are non commercially and FOSS and can be self hosted and federated.

    In the long run, every commercial platform that has enough users will enshittify, that’s just capitalism. That’s why we have to break the cycle and reject corporate social media.

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    Yeah a website should not be able to tell where I am looking at or if my audio is muted or not.

    But Bezos needs more money right, because he doesn’t have enough yet.

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      Blame the browsers for creating the APIs.

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        You mean Google.

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        These tools can be used for good applications though. Why punish good developers when bad actors are the problem?

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      yah but the problem is that other streaming platforms exist, and a fair few streamers multi stream so…

      jeff might not have thought this through.

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    Feels like a definite mile marker in our descent to Idiocracy.

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      This is Black Mirror, not Idiocracy. If you can only relate to reality through fiction, at least use the appropriate one.

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        Calm down.

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    Well, so much for considering a return to twitch as an entertainment option

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