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??????
Okay, bye forever!
this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2026
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Didnt you guys watch that black mirror episode? It was exactly like this. Look away from ads and you get punished.
Firefox (fork) + uBlock?
that doesn't work for twitch unfortunately :(
there used to be a different Firefox extension for just twitch which worked but idk what happened to it.
The way it worked was by taking the tiny steam of the creator that shows up when an ad plays and just scaled it up to cover the ad while muting it.
I'm sure there is a way to prevent this screen in particular, but IIRC Twitch simply doesn't stream to you when there's ads playing, or it's hardcoded into the stream itself or something, so you'd be looking at a small audio-less preview if anything ... & correct me if I'm wrong. I stopped using Twitch entirely because of this, though.
Why the fuck does my browser need to send it the information that its muted or minimized?
I need everyone to look at what you can do with HTML5 "game engines". You want mouse poisiton? You want to know if the mouse is in on the page or not? Internet speed? Audio card codec?
If a 13 years old using the free version of construct3 can do it, capitalism can do it.
Firefox has plugins to spoof specific tabs as always active.
You should link them so more people can find them easily.
Because Browsers are corporate-built garbage which are designed with corporate interests in mind, same reason they choose to send good fingerprinting canvas data instead of sending randomized garbage every new session.
It's been a standard feature for a very long time I'm kind of surprised they've only just started making use of it but this kind of thing.
A lot of sites that play sounds will stop when you tap out of them otherwise they're just plain sounds in the background and that's kind of annoying.
And it's not a bad feature to have for the functionality of some sites. It's just that as with any feature/rule/etc it can be abused. So a toggle like (according to a comment above) some plugins add is an unfortunate necessity.
You’re gonna sit there and watch those PrizePicks and AI generated Kalshi ads and like it!
I dropped them like a bad habit when they first implemented the advertisements. I have never looked back.
I can't stand Twitch. I don't mind live streamers' edited clips on YouTube but watching it live is just such a drag to me.
Nope I also don't understand the appeal of streamers, even if they are content creators I actually like. The simultaneously huge long pauses while they're doing something in the background, because no streamer ever seems to be able to get the setup working, and at the same time constant interaction with the comments. I get why it's like that, but they are always them going on about subs and gifted subs, just get on with whatever it is that you're streaming.
Joke’s on them, my computer doesn’t even know whether it’s muted or not.
Them bitches let ya know if you were getting a text. Loved that shit.
I had that exact model. Had a real satisfying click on the knob when you turned it on.
I think everyone had that model at one point.
Fuck I though this was a satirical shitpost but it's real. This seems like the last stop before that patent about yelling the company name to get back to your content...
Please drink verification can.
If it is publicly-traded, it will be enshittified. This is an ironclad, inviolable law.
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I don't care about any platform enough to be abused by it.
Please drink verification can.
Mountain doo for me and you.
"Avoid minimizing or muting for a better experience" Wow, this is beyond nuts.
If i was a Twitch user, i'd dump this right now.
doesn't amazon own twitch? It's no surprise that they're enshittifying at an alarming rate.
I wish I had an account so I could have the satisfaction of deleting it right now.
"for a better experience" lmao
i hope the IT stock market crashes so hard
I hope jeff bezos grows hair all over his body at an unmaintainable rate
Doesn't say "your". They probably meant "shareholders'"
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LOL, why would anyone be retarded enough to watch?
thier ads are already unblockable , apparently there is a workaround.
Reminder that Sony has patented technology to force viewers into saying a certain phrase in order to continue past an advertisement. Sure, it sounds dystopian, but just look at how excited the little consumer is to enthusiastically shout the name of one of his favorite corporations!
Mentioning this without including the verification can story should be illegal
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