I am shocked. Shocked, I say!
Well not that shocked.
I am shocked. Shocked, I say!
Well not that shocked.
Shouldn't be surprised. Entire thing is in Russian
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/twitch-enhanced-viewer/
Damn, now the Russians know what vtubers I've been gooning to.
There is a script you can find that autoblocks twitch ads if you set it up properly. It’s popular but, I forgot it, it uses Ublock origin.
Twitch Adblock Solutions on github? Developer rage quit in disgust of Amazon and archived the repo.
This is the current darling extension to use:
https://github.com/GosuDRM/TTV-AB
It'll use the standard definition preview stream until the ads stop playing, then switch to the regular stream.
Twitch ad blocker
Does uBlock do a bad job?
For Twitch it does, they inline the video ads with the stream, uBlock can't do anything about that, and if you have a blocker that does work Twitch just infinitely refreshes the stream trying to force the video ad.
I still don't understand why people aren't using ublock in 2026.
Just wanted to say that's a great little pixel art graphic for the story. I'm confident it's not ai, because i like it.
Sorry but I really think it's AI. The only time I played around with AI of any kind was to see how it'd handle pixelart and it looked very similar to this. It's good at a very quick glance but quickly falls apart (like a lot of AI things) as soon as you actually look at it.
I don't see how a human could mess it up that oddly and badly. It would take more effort to make it this bad than just make actual pixel art, there are so many small things that make no sense as errors or sloppy/lazy human art.
What's wrong and bad about it, in your opinion? I'm no pixel art expert, but it sounds like you may be?
I can’t speak to the pixel are but the website itself also looks ai generated (as in the design not necessarily the writing). Also its homepage advertises its services as ai powered.
Yeah, I had a peek too. It might be ai, but I haven't seen any actual evidence of it - they use this pixel art style on a lot of their posts and it seems consistently decent.
Looking at their company photo they're very well funded and also have a team of like 60 people, so there's no reason they couldn't have an in-house graphics artist or a freelancer they contract. Or it could be ai.
But in times where every modern graphics artists is being accused of being AI, I'm inclined to assume not rather than assume it is, without evidence to the contrary.
it doesnt really adhere to any pixel grid. many pixel artists also dont adhere to a grid, but ai REALLY doesnt.
This should not even be in a pixel art

Uhh.. Its the icon for a browser plugin.. To illustrate that it was a Twitch browser plugin.
Yeah but you see, it's a pixel art, it should not be there and should be bigger, to match the pixel grid, this image has a ton of pixel not matching a grid and mixel (mixel can be an artistic choice but here they were clearly abused, i can give it the benefit of the doubt but that icon is too sus...)
A Google vetted source allowing code that compromises the end user? That's simply not possible. The developer had to provide an ID to publish the code. It MUST be safe! /s
And that's why you only use open-source addons if possible - less risk of this issue
There are closed sourced web browser addons‽
I swear all Manifest V3 & XPI are source readable.
Though Russian is a req..
Also, not sure how readable is a compressed, obfuscated source code on release.
nah, I earnest believe every person ðt installd ↓ just didn't boðer readŋ éðr code. Decompression is somθŋ every1 does. Ur internet connection can't work wo/it. I haven't botherd checkŋ if it has obfuscation.
Mate what is this language
I’ve made a v2 extension for Firefox, you CAN have obfuscated code in an extension by compiling it. HOWEVER, Mozilla requires you to submit the source code for any compiled/obfuscated code. Google has no reason not to catch it.
Compressed XPI packages can still be read afaik, they’re just JavaScript, CSS and HTML files at the end of the day.
Google has no reason not to catch it.
Apparently lying on threadiverse is also a requirement, seeing as you have no problems with it. JeetBot made no attempt to obfuscate their credential requiring addon, for other API means than to do both.
This was “Я верю в это.” No afterthought, no review.
Apologies, but I do not understand the argument you’re trying to make nor the part in my comment where I lied.
After Google created v3 manifests, all chrome addons MUST be readable. It's simply JS, HTML, & JSON in a ZIP.
I did not mention Google not having this measure (nor was I aware of it), I only stated what I knew. And this only proves my argument further anyway: Google has no reason not to catch it. (“it” being the malicious extension)
There were no lies in my comment but you jumped the gun, accused me of lying and were rude about it too.
Calling out misinformation is good, just please be politer.
Politeness is a ladder. The extension isn't still malicious: it does what it says. It just the tradeoff is getting your API credentials stolen. Calling twitchenhancedviewer “obfuscated” is pure disinformation, as we can both see both codes, Firefox's & Chrome’s.
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