Well, so much for considering a return to twitch as an entertainment option

Avoid minimizing or muting Twitch for a better experience.

Avoid enshittifying Twitch for a better experience.

Drink verification can.

Yeah a website should not be able to tell where I am looking at or if my audio is muted or not.

But Bezos needs more money right, because he doesn't have enough yet.

That's a full boycott from me, dawg.

Not even once. I'm good watching recycled twitch clips wherever they crop up. Fuck your business model with a pitchfork.

I must be lucky, I've not seen any ads on twitch.

Also, I don't use twitch.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-page-visibility/

same for chrome based browsers. an API that should never have existed in the first place.

Solution: stop using Twitch.

I think the real alternatives are Peertube or Owncast, because they are non commercially and FOSS and can be self hosted and federated.

In the long run, every commercial platform that has enough users will enshittify, that's just capitalism. That's why we have to break the cycle and reject corporate social media.

I guess I'll continue never using twitch.

That's gonna take a whopping 10 lines of userscript to defeat, hell I already had to use one to stop them from dropping the video quality when unfocused (so I could watch streams in PiP properly)

I already saw this Black Mirror episode

What I find stupid is that people will keep using it after all the shit they are doing. I mean, it's twitch, you can live without it. And yet, people will accept this bullshit and keep going because the alternative of changing platform is just too bothersome for them. In the end, I'm starting to think we have the internet we deserve.

gets arrested for using ad-blocking technologies

Host your own OwnCast (https://owncast.online/). It uses ActivityPub and is part of the Fediverse.

Here's mine: https://live.fraxoweb.com/

Basically stopped watching twitch bwcause of the stupid fucking unskippable ads... and I'm glad i did, I'm never going back, fuck them and their bs ads. Much more free time :)

Feels like a definite mile marker in our descent to Idiocracy.

IT equivalent to 'Eyelids glued open'

Sounds like something browsers should have an option to prevent. Or just don't use twitch in the first place.

There has to be a way to write a plug in to fool sites into thinking you have volume on and the tab in focus.

I stopped going to the theater because I had to pay to watch commercials and advertisements.

wow, what an awful idea

Make it shitty!

Lmao fuck twitch

Soooo. Delete twitch. Problem solved.

Does watching Twitch through GrayJay get around this?