Actual YouTube/Twitch drama thread

[synistar]

I saw the first ad one time yesterday, on a channel I'm not following. Anyone I followed or subbed to didn't hit me with those ads. Will just make sure to follow anyone I'm going to watch more than once, or get different adblockers. I'm sure it won't take people long to adapt.

I don't think it matters if you're following or not. Subs and Turbo won't get ads. You will at minimum pre-roll ads for non-subbed channels.

If you're watching any streamers who are Twitch exclusive expect to get 4 minutes of ads/hour since it's on their exclusive contract (Source: itsHafu stated on stream that she is required to run ads)

Those who got the PSAs were running adblocks this weekend as I noticed it on Saturday. Was able to circumvent the PSA every 10 minutes switching back to Firefox Alternative player. Still got prerolls.
The other bad part is that after the 30 second PSA, the stream volume is either mute or full fucking blast RIP headphone users loud. A script was quickly posted that would auto-reset your player and resume the stream at a reasonable volume while skipping the PSA.

[Jefe]

Good pr move, pokimain

https://clips.twitch.tv/InnocentBoredLouseOhMyDog

*Tbh, poki and her team should've done this right after all the drama when vrtubers were making fun of her simps 4 donating their trumpbux to the point of homelessness. Still, good move.

[Lucavi]

Hafu said she's required to run 5 minutes of ads an hour during an 8-hour workday.

[Day]

Good pr move, pokimain

https://clips.twitch.tv/InnocentBoredLouseOhMyDog

*Tbh, poki and her team should've done this right after all the drama when vrtubers were making fun of her simps 4 donating their trumpbux to the point of homelessness. Still, good move.

thats pretty cool honestly

[synistar]

The war of adblockers vs ad spam on Twitch continue. The most recent development - having an adblocker on will reduce the player's maximum resolution to 480p.

[Corrderio]

Twitch must be desperate if they're going to these lengths

[Sirious]

I do find the oneupsmenship commendable. They're going to drive everyone away from twitch lol.

[6souls]

The war of adblockers vs ad spam on Twitch continue. The most recent development - having an adblocker on will reduce the player's maximum resolution to 480p.

Not yet. Just checked and I was getting 1080p.

[Corrderio]

I do find the oneupsmenship commendable. They're going to drive everyone away from twitch lol.

I mean would they? Are there any other sites that can be considered competition? Mixer is dead and people going back to Twitch over Facebook shows that Facebook Gaming will be close to DOA.

I guess there's YouTube but I heard the YouTube Gaming interface is pretty bad.

[Sirious]

The options suck, but which sucks more. Ads may be the single most obnoxious thing in modern life. At some point enough becomes enough.

Oh! you know what else is annoying as fuck on twitch? the extensions that you can't turn off. Sportbuff. Amazon blacksmith. Thank god I found a way to block those.

[Corrderio]

I honestly wouldn't mind ads if we were back in the early 2000s era of the internet where the ad was just a simple banner/animation and none of this "ads with sounds/resource hog/cut in the middle of your video" crap nowadays.

[Fiye]

The war of adblockers vs ad spam on Twitch continue. The most recent development - having an adblocker on will reduce the player's maximum resolution to 480p.

It looks like the only reason this happens is because of ublock script using some sort of pop out player. I'm running ublock w/ no script and am not being limited but I still get the "ad" every 10 mins.

[Qalbert]

https://twitter.com/Twitch/status/1326562684649701376
https://twitter.com/Twitch/status/1326562686218371078
https://twitter.com/Twitch/status/1326562687870930945

[Sirious]

In terms of how colossal a fuck up this DMCA thing is for twitch, if mixer hadn't already gave up, who knows.

Twitch fuckin up, but doesn't care cause where you gonna go, facebook? lul. Stay fuckin up and find out though.

[NynJa]

How is Twitch "fuckin up"? They supposed to ignore the DMCA requests and open themselves up to a huge lawsuit?

[Sirious]

It's just handled poorly, which they admitted to. Tack on this ad spam war and yeah.

Creators lost billions of hours of vods, thousands of bans a week? like come on. No matter what perspective you take and/or blame that's fuckin up.

[Lucavi]

I say they're fucking up when the user experience worsens this quickly while they rake in megabucks on these ads. They're running into the same wall that Television did, and they're foolish if they think that people won't leave them for the next new piece of technology that starts off with no fucking ads.

People abandon platforms that become bogged down with ads for a reason. I know Twitch knew that before, and I know they're making a shit ton of cash the same way Television and Youtube did before them. There 100% is a financial amount that causes a person, team or company to ignore all those honeyed words they said years earlier ab out wanting their product to be for the people, and clearly Twitch has hit that amount.

These are some crazy intrusive ads.

[Tyrath]

Who bork youtube? :O

[Meresgi]

Who bork youtube? :O

It's back now. I was at a lost of what to do!!! lol

[NynJa]

I say they're fucking up when the user experience worsens this quickly while they rake in megabucks on these ads. They're running into the same wall that Television did, and they're foolish if they think that people won't leave them for the next new piece of technology that starts off with no fucking ads.

People abandon platforms that become bogged down with ads for a reason. I know Twitch knew that before, and I know they're making a shit ton of cash the same way Television and Youtube did before them. There 100% is a financial amount that causes a person, team or company to ignore all those honeyed words they said years earlier ab out wanting their product to be for the people, and clearly Twitch has hit that amount.

These are some crazy intrusive ads.

Thats cool and all, and I agree about the ads...but im talking about the DMCA takedowns.