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Twitch is now limiting users quality to 480p if ublock is detected

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Strakt

Strakt

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Oct 27, 2017
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theres a fix for it already; just purge all caches and update in the ublock options
 
Sky87

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Oct 27, 2017
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Doesn't seem to impact me, atleast not yet. Using NoScript as well though, so might be i'm blocking the script responsible for this.
 

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I'm sure they'll find a way around this. I don't watch Twitch except for Giantbomb stuff so it doesn't affect me much.
 
hydruxo

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Oct 25, 2017
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I use ublock and it still lets me set it to 1080p

Edit: Nevermind, just saw they fixed it
 
Lunatic

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Oct 27, 2017
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Yes, make adverts more annoying that historically has always worked.

Dumb motherfuckers.
 
Sargerus

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Oct 25, 2017
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Huh...so that's why the VODs i was watching earlier this week just randomly kept changing quality to 480p
 
Kouriozan

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Oct 25, 2017
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Forcing people to have the highest quality would actually be the better annoyance there, haha.
 
VariantX

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Oct 25, 2017
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Twitch is underestimating how much people hate ads ruining their experience and will happily trade that for not having their streams interrupted. It's fucking obvious because people will literally just pay money to not have ads
 
Conkerkid11

Conkerkid11

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Oct 25, 2017
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Wow, they're really not looking at how quickly shit like this gets fixed for Ublock users and realizing maybe they should just give up
 
FriendlyNPC

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Oct 27, 2017
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VariantX said:
Twitch is underestimating how much people hate ads ruining their experience and will happily trade that for not having their streams interrupted. It's fucking obvious because people will literally just pay money to not have ads
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Yeah, it's kinda absurd. I would literally rather stop watching twitch than being forced to watch their shitty ads. And I would take the subscription money that i spend on streamers with me. Is that what twitch wants here?

Luckily we still got ublock ā¤.
 
Neo_MG90

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Apr 23, 2018
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lol I just logged on Twitch and was like wtf is going on

Then I come here and see this thread. Right on time!

Man, I was just thinking today, when the big fighting game tournaments (and other genres as well) return, man, it will be a torture to watch with all these ads.

I just imagine this

 
Twister

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Feb 11, 2019
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If they don't want me to use Adblock, they shouldn't have taken away the Twitch Prime benefits and then forced me to watch 200 ads per stream. Fuck Twitch
 
Lobster Roll

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Sep 24, 2019
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For fuck's sake Twitch, these battles against people finding workarounds never end well.
 
Pancoar

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Oct 25, 2017
1,551
I usually use 480p most of the time when I'm able to anyway.

Seriously Twitch can just fuck off. People will keep finding workarounds and I'm not going to stop using ublock so yeah
 
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