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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???

X/Twitter.

  • Damarus@feddit.org
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    10 hours ago

    Yeah but uBlock can’t or at least doesn’t block Twitch ads, so that doesn’t really apply here.

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      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.

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      You can add a little string of text to ublock and itll work again. Havent seen an ad nonconsentually in years on there

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      Of course it does, I have never seen an ad in Twitch, this is in Firefox, don’t know how it works in Chrome with the messed up adblock system 🤷

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        Sorry but that’s just wrong. Ads on Twitch are forced in a way that can’t be easily bypassed locally. That’s why stuff like Twitch AdSolutions exists. The common workaround is using a proxy server in countries that don’t get ads, maybe you live in one of those.

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          Oh it seems that you are right, I didn’t know that, I thought it was just blocked through ublock. Thanks for your comment

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          ublock can too block twitch ads, because it can run adsolutions itself. it’s even on that page you linked.

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            Yeah that’s true but it’s really just a method to run a more complex userscript, which isn’t really comparable to the element blocking rules that uBlock normally handles.

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          Thank you. I just stopped using that website overall, because of all the ads thrown down my throat.