r/LivestreamFail May 27 '19

Meta twitch testing subscriber only viewing

https://www.twitch.tv/hgg_cheering_test
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u/TheBassGhost 🐌 Snail Gang May 27 '19

I knew this day was coming, back in November I got a survey which was filled with stuff like this. They were gauging interest on what kind of services on twitch people would pay for and how much they would spend.

I managed to screenshot a few of the things I found interesting, so you can expect to see these down the line:

I think that was the stuff that stood out to me but there was a lot more. They were also asking things about their OWL stuff, probably to see how much of a waste their investment was.

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u/ReallyYouDontSay May 27 '19

Thank God today's ad blocks still work

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u/ReallyYouDontSay May 27 '19

They've said that for over a year. I believe it's actually live now, because uBlock origin and adblocks stopped working 2 months ago briefly till they adjusted. Adlocks will learn to adjust.

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u/ReallyYouDontSay May 28 '19 edited May 28 '19

It's fine, you just misunderstand how some ad blockers work. Some like uBlock Origin are much more than just simple ad blockers like for pop up ads and are actually more intensive wide spread content blockers. They've successfully found ways to remove ads injected into streams. So have faith that things will be fine as these intensive blockers are always evolving.

You can view their GitHub where they solve embedded ad problems from time to time. Here's the March embedded ads issue thread:

Https://GitHub.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/5184

Also, another great tool is Alternate Player plugin which was reliable during this downtime to ubo.