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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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    That’s gonna take a whopping 10 lines of userscript to defeat, hell I already had to use one to stop them from dropping the video quality when unfocused (so I could watch streams in PiP properly)

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      What’s the user script? I’m not familiar with Twitch and currently too lazy to dig into all of it.

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        I use this one:
        https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/383093-twitch-disable-automatic-video-downscale

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