with youtube at least YT premium cuts out ads on all streams & videos
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Twitch is running a PSA for people using ad-blockers on the site, and nobody’s happy
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Sorry Twitch, this war ended over a decade ago. The only thing this will do is push viewers away entirely.
Ads pushed me off youtube years ago. It will push me off Twitch as well. It's already changed my viewing habits. I am much less likely to check out new streamers, I will dip out of stream-raids because of it, and significantly decreased how often I visit the site in general.
Huh, I didn't put it together before now but I guess this is why I haven't been getting those ads lol... Definitely recommend it.Do yourself a favour and download this:
Vastly superior to the standard player and, as of yet, no ads. Thank me later.
Alternate Player for Twitch.tv
Alternate player of live broadcasts for Twitch.tv website.chrome.google.com
Edit: There's also a Firefox extension for people like me that use Firefox.
Oh it still exists? The way some people talked about it I thought it was gone. Good to know.
They probably don't really care if the net gain is positive, but this seems like it's introducing a lot of friction to watch of variety of streams and try new ones, on a platform basically everyone already admits is 'top heavy" and has very poor discoverability.
Turbo stil exists? Damn I'd probably still pay for it if I watched a lot of streams now
Damn, this is sweet. I'm trying it right now, and while I like it, there seems to be a longer delay of the video. I see that I can modify some settings such as "buffer size" and "buffer overflow". Do you know which values I should use with these settings to get the same delay as that of the regular player? That's fairly important to me as I often interact with the chat.Do yourself a favour and download this:
Vastly superior to the standard player and, as of yet, no ads. Thank me later.Alternate Player for Twitch.tv
Alternate player of live broadcasts for Twitch.tv website.
Hard to believe that this a bug, considering Thursday and Friday of last week someone was updating ublock to block the ads and Twitch was implementing fixes to stop them. The midroll ad spam didn't start happening until after a few days of back and forth between ublock and Twitch.
I'm probably part of that site performance reduction. I finally found away around the pre roll ads they show when you select a stream. By spam clicking between multiple channels eventually the ad serve script gives up and just lets you watch the channel without the ad. Takes a few seconds and is far quicker than sitting though the same amazon ad over and over.
Dont mind ads but I hate how I have a stream at 40% volume, cuts to an ad cranks it up to 110%. Please fix this bullshit
That's a little above my pay grade I'm afraid. I just keep the connection quality on "good" and leave it at that.
I don't know if it'll help, but if you mouse over any of the settings under buffering it pops up with a little explanation. You might have an easier time parsing them than me.
While I hate the ads as much as anyone, would Twitch exist without them? I dont really see them as intrusive. They run over the video screen pretty much how you'd expect them to though I have seen some of the midroll ones push the stream to the side so you can kinda see both (impossible on mobile cause the streamer window is too small). Not sure how else they should be played. People complain they load when they join a stream but they complain even more when they run in the middle of a stream. Obviously the end isn't an option
Alright, thanks. I dropped the buffer size to 3 and it's better, so I'll leave it at that.
Branch that is still updated: https://streamlink.github.io
Livestreamer is also good way to watch some Twitch, requires bit more setup and advanced knowledge to set up: https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/releases
It hooks up playback to e.g. VLC (also supports other media players).
It hooks up playback to e.g. VLC (also supports other media players).
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Amazon is already one of the wealthiest companies on the planet, and they make more than enough revenue from subs and donos on Twitch to fund the website's existence and maintenance.
There's other ad-based sources of revenue for them as well that are a lot less intrusive such as bounties and ad-breaks which are controlled by the streamer.
I don't watch Twitch but I assume there's an influx of viewers now because of the pandemic and more bandwidth is needed?
Amazon literally owns AWS. Twitch doesn't need to worry about that.
Only really watch twitch now for Maximilian_dood. But even if I wasn't unemployed for a year and a half, I'd never get a twitch turbo. Bezos the bald dragon has hoarded enough money from the world.
If ads weren't so much of an invasive privacy nightmare I'd turn adnasuem off. I can't be completely protected on the internet, but I'll do whatever meagre attempts I am capable of.
If VODs are affected too, then I guess I'm never gonna watch his streams anymore. Fucking sucks, Max always does right by his fans.
If ads weren't so much of an invasive privacy nightmare I'd turn adnasuem off. I can't be completely protected on the internet, but I'll do whatever meagre attempts I am capable of.
If VODs are affected too, then I guess I'm never gonna watch his streams anymore. Fucking sucks, Max always does right by his fans.
There is a script you can run that refreshes the page whenever it detects the PSA. Since ad-blockers successfully block pre-roll ads, this is the best solution currently.
Twitch has never been this aggressive at fighting back against ad blocking. Wonder if they will give up eventually.
Twitch has never been this aggressive at fighting back against ad blocking. Wonder if they will give up eventually.
Doubtful they back off. Apparently they are getting quite a bit pressure from Amazon to pump up revenue figures, especially ad revenue.
You probably want Streamlink it's an actively maintained fork of Livestreamer which seems abandoned.
Would need receipts on "Make more than enough revenue from subs and donos". Not going to assume you're just assuming that but logically they're not making enough revenue to cover their expenses from subs and donos, hence the ads.
Amazon only posts their gross revenue from twitch so can't find a solid source outside of some websites highlighting key facts that can help figure it out...
Report: Amazon’s Twitch Not Meeting Ad Revenue Expectations
Twitch leads the live-streaming market, pulling in a reported $230 million in ad revenue for 2018, but that still pales in comparison to YouTube.
www.forbes.com
One thing that stood out is Twitch made 1.54 in revenue while Youtube gaming made 1.45 billion in revenue which way less viewers and much less content and content creators. That metric alone casts doubts that Amazon is killing it with Twitch since they make far less while supporting far more in terms of infrastructure, employees, revenue sharing, and operational costs. Since youtube's primary revenue driver is ads, it makes sense twitch is looking to increase their margins in this area.
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Yeah. When we had other options, largely the majority simply didn't try them out. Now you have no choice but to stick with twitch.
It's funny because I'm more upset about this DMCA shit making streamers delete years of VODs. Fuck DMCA.
Do you use an adblocker? If so, I'm pretty sure they're reclaiming ads and largely these media companies don't care if the experience is worse for people they aren't monetizing.
Do you use an adblocker? If so, I'm pretty sure they're reclaiming ads and largely these media companies don't care if the experience is worse for people they aren't monetizing.
If they are partnered, it should be strictly decided by the channel owner and nobody else. They've effectively ruined the browsing aspect of Twitch. I stick to just one channel when I watch now because I really don't want to get slapped with an ad when I go to a different streamer.
If you have Amazon Prime you shouldn't see any ads at all. Fed up of seeing their shitty TV show adverts over and over.
Now this I agree with. But this started for me when they started with pre-rolls in general.
YouTube is significantly more than just a streaming platform though, and they're not fighting adblockers tooth and nail in order to push ads.Would need receipts on "Make more than enough revenue from subs and donos". Not going to assume you're just assuming that but logically they're not making enough revenue to cover their expenses from subs and donos, hence the ads.
Amazon only posts their gross revenue from twitch so can't find a solid source outside of some websites highlighting key facts that can help figure it out...
Report: Amazon’s Twitch Not Meeting Ad Revenue Expectations
Twitch leads the live-streaming market, pulling in a reported $230 million in ad revenue for 2018, but that still pales in comparison to YouTube.
One thing that stood out is Twitch made 1.54 in revenue while Youtube gaming made 1.45 billion in revenue which way less viewers and much less content and content creators. That metric alone casts doubts that Amazon is killing it with Twitch since they make far less while supporting far more in terms of infrastructure, employees, revenue sharing, and operational costs. Since youtube's primary revenue driver is ads, it makes sense twitch is looking to increase their margins in this area.
Yup Asmongold made this point 2 days ago. The preroll ads won't hurt huge streamers like him too much but will absolutely kill the already awful discoverability of twitch and lower viewer count streamers.
Sorry I mean they should change it back to that, not that that is how it currently works.
You will want to combine Streamlink with the Twitch GUI (basically a Twitch desktop app) as well for a superior experience watching streams.
I'm paying Amazon what $120 a year for Prime? An ad free Twitch Prime should be a part of the deal honestly.