Hahahaha, this is what made me quit twitch, for good. I’ll do the same with YouTube. It’ll suck, yes, but it’ll ultimately be good for me and my mental health. 3 years from now I won’t miss YouTube.
A few months ago ublock origin wasn’t working for a subset of users (that youtube was using to test features that would break ublock origin for everyone). Ublock had to do make changes to counter youtubes efforts. They did so successfully and became an even more robust ad blocker than before. If they had not, we all would have been seeing ads break through months back.
My point is that it is an arms race and so far ublock (and other ad blockers, though ublock consistently proves the best) has been able to keep ahead for the most part. I don’t know for sure if this is the moment when youtube starts to pull in front, obviously I hope not. But even if they do, that doesn’t mean ublock will be permanently broken. Even if ads got through for you today, it doesn’t necessarily mean they will tomorrow. We’ll see.
Oh yeah? I should probably check it out again then. It most certainly didn’t work several years ago when I quit twitch (Ublock origin is still the adblocker I use) (I don’t remember exactly when I stopped using twitch, time is a fuck)
Edit: oh you seem to be correct! I just went on twitch for the first time in years, and, uh, no ads? That actually might be pretty bad for me. Because I will watch streams all day if I’m not stopped from doing so somehow. Well, damn, but also, it’s objectively good, so I’m torn
Edit again: oh wait no, just saw an ad, and I’m unwilling to figure out exactly why or what I could do to mitigate it, since twitch is bad for me anyway. Ah well, no twitch for me, it’s ok!
Just as a protip or whatever for people, if you split tunnel VPN traffic specific domains that twitch uses for ads, you will get no ads. You just gotta VPN to countries which don’t serve ads. An easy one included with most cheap, commercial VPNs is Ukraine. They don’t have ads. Neither does Russia, although proxies and VPNs to Russia are less common I guess due to sanctions. Poland has ads but less to my knowledge. You can google like Twitch ad domains and find the domains Twitch uses. I have several domains automatically routed through different VPNs in my home network and all my Twitch traffic is included in that. Never get ads except if the VPN stops working.
Hahahaha, this is what made me quit twitch, for good. I’ll do the same with YouTube. It’ll suck, yes, but it’ll ultimately be good for me and my mental health. 3 years from now I won’t miss YouTube.
Ublock origin still works fine on twitch
I’ve never had a problem with uBlock Origin until today. I know it’s serious when they’ve broken through it.
A few months ago ublock origin wasn’t working for a subset of users (that youtube was using to test features that would break ublock origin for everyone). Ublock had to do make changes to counter youtubes efforts. They did so successfully and became an even more robust ad blocker than before. If they had not, we all would have been seeing ads break through months back.
My point is that it is an arms race and so far ublock (and other ad blockers, though ublock consistently proves the best) has been able to keep ahead for the most part. I don’t know for sure if this is the moment when youtube starts to pull in front, obviously I hope not. But even if they do, that doesn’t mean ublock will be permanently broken. Even if ads got through for you today, it doesn’t necessarily mean they will tomorrow. We’ll see.
There are some FOSS twitch clients on fdroid as well. I use Xtra the rare time I want to watch a twitch stream.
Oh yeah? I should probably check it out again then. It most certainly didn’t work several years ago when I quit twitch (Ublock origin is still the adblocker I use) (I don’t remember exactly when I stopped using twitch, time is a fuck)
Edit: oh you seem to be correct! I just went on twitch for the first time in years, and, uh, no ads? That actually might be pretty bad for me. Because I will watch streams all day if I’m not stopped from doing so somehow. Well, damn, but also, it’s objectively good, so I’m torn
Edit again: oh wait no, just saw an ad, and I’m unwilling to figure out exactly why or what I could do to mitigate it, since twitch is bad for me anyway. Ah well, no twitch for me, it’s ok!
I do see an ad or other but it’s very occasional, usually restarting the browser works (probably something to do with updating ublock filters).
I’m using Vaft + ublock origin from https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions#twitchadsolutions, works great for me.
Just as a protip or whatever for people, if you split tunnel VPN traffic specific domains that twitch uses for ads, you will get no ads. You just gotta VPN to countries which don’t serve ads. An easy one included with most cheap, commercial VPNs is Ukraine. They don’t have ads. Neither does Russia, although proxies and VPNs to Russia are less common I guess due to sanctions. Poland has ads but less to my knowledge. You can google like Twitch ad domains and find the domains Twitch uses. I have several domains automatically routed through different VPNs in my home network and all my Twitch traffic is included in that. Never get ads except if the VPN stops working.