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Malakriss said:

get the alternative twitch player if you're doing any watching at all. Ads can frack off.

edit: there's also user-agent mods that are getting around it now, plus the userResources script has been updated as a separate extension.

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Nah, I'm good. I don't reward people trying to fuck me.

I did the ublock fix the first time. That's about all the effort I was willing to make. I'll just move on with my life.

Apparently, login with twitch ID, it doesn't show any ads.

Honestly that twitchls site performs so well I'm going to run it locally and say fuck Twitch .tv forever. Regular twitch makes my laptop fans spin up like a PS4 Pro, this one they aren't even on.

Yah, well.. You wanted twitch with no ads... You get twitch with no ads. You didn't say anything about a dark mode.

I'm now being shown french ads.



A line has been crossed

Twitch still trying to break everything, alternative twitch player now getting prerolls coming through.

I mean....

It's almost as if Twitch is staffed by a bunch of incompetent furries and was ignoring this problem for months/years hoping it would go away and now have absolutely no viable plan in place for their platform to function under the existing copyright laws (as shit as they might be)

I'd expect big daddy Bezos to clean house in short order

Gankak said:

I mean....

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If they mean cyberpunk2077, CDPKR have already stated that it will be ok to play the game music on streams, it's stuff they made on their own for the game. So that's fine, but other games in general that use rented music, heh, yeah mute it I guess. Roflgator has been using a bot that detects dmca music now, and it will send him message in chat and discord whenever something is flagged, think everyone is going to have to use that.

Twitch also launched something to play free music, which probably amounts to the same garbage free stuff you get with youtube.

Also ublock origin script was changed into an extension instead. So people can try that I guess, I haven't tried it yet, stopped caring.

Gankak said:

I mean....

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I wonder if more games will opt for more in house music instead of going the license way. It'll mean less exposure for the game if they go the licensed route.

If you take Twitch for their word, their recent blog post suggests the music industry is trying to get a profit sharing deal that Twitch has rejected in its current form, on the basis that for the vast majority of streamers, music is incidental vs. actually a focus (which I agree with, who the fuck watches a streamer for music alone outside of an actual musician?). They did direct all streamers to stop using recorded music on their streams, though, outside some already vetted sources.

They also indicated they went from like 50 DMCA claims a year to getting thousands a week starting in May

lol the music industry still living in denial for 20+ years.

Also, watching people play videogames rots your brain.