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Twitch continues to deteriorate as a platform because what do you mean I can’t TAB OUT TO MY SECOND MONITOR DURING THE AD BREAK

I NEED TO FOCUS THE TAB AND THE WINDOW FOR THE AD TO PLAY???

X/Twitter.

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    3 days ago

    Of course it does, I have never seen an ad in Twitch, this is in Firefox, don’t know how it works in Chrome with the messed up adblock system 🤷

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      Sorry but that’s just wrong. Ads on Twitch are forced in a way that can’t be easily bypassed locally. That’s why stuff like Twitch AdSolutions exists. The common workaround is using a proxy server in countries that don’t get ads, maybe you live in one of those.

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        3 days ago

        Oh it seems that you are right, I didn’t know that, I thought it was just blocked through ublock. Thanks for your comment

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        I used to support testing the adblock solutions from Pixeltris some years ago when Twitch actively starting fighting adblockers. It turned out the only reliable way is to use a proxy or VPN of a country that doesnt serve ads via amazons ad system. Mostly small countries where it’s not worth place advertisments. I am using eithe czech, polish or Luxembourg IPs and usually dont get any ads this way anymore as there are no corporstions using their af service.

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        ublock can too block twitch ads, because it can run adsolutions itself. it’s even on that page you linked.

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          Yeah that’s true but it’s really just a method to run a more complex userscript, which isn’t really comparable to the element blocking rules that uBlock normally handles.

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        Thank you. I just stopped using that website overall, because of all the ads thrown down my throat.