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Twitch forces users to watch ads they can't click away from (www.dailydot.com)
submitted 6 months ago* by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 71 points 6 months ago (16 children)

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.

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  • [–] 72 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    I feel like people are eager to change and make new habits but won't go places where there is no content.

    It's the streamers and youtubers who need to move, but they won't because of of the other platforms don't have similar monetization

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  • [–] 44 points 6 months ago

    Yeah exactly. The culture and the people make twitch, not the platform.

    Same with YouTube - I could switch to peertube but I would be missing out on so many creators and so much content I genuinely wanna watch.

    To me this always boils down to "it's not worth it to live a boring life just out of principle". I get that if everyone switched we'd be better off but we're just not there yet.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    It's possible for them to stream to multiple platforms simultaneously, it's common for streamers to do twitch and youtube at the same time. If the tools make it easy enough they might do it despite no potential to make money right away.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    Makes it harder for community interaction given split chats though. And chatting with other random people in chats is like 60% of why I watch streams at all, so breaking that ruins the experience imo. Its like hanging out with a friend whose also just on a phone call the whole time.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Pretty sure twitch has deals with streamers that restricts how they can stream. I think SimpleFlips had a video explaining why he stopped streaming on YouTube, he didn't realize the twitch partner contract required him to stream exclusively on twitch at the time. I've also heard some things about how you can stream simultaneously, but twitch doesn't allow you merging chats from different platforms, so if you want to show chat in the stream itself, each platform might need a separate box.

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  • [+] -6 points 6 months ago

    You don't need to watch this or that streamer to live. You can ditch them and do something else. The streamer goes where the money is. If they start seeing people don't use twitch anymore, they will switch to whatever platform the audience wants. But alas, the audience seems to enjoy ads this way so...

    This is self inflicted pain and people enjoy it.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    So many platforms are like this. I think it's because content creators their business tied into these systems.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I only use it for in-game drops once in a blue moon and even then it's on 160p with no sound with two ad blockers on, minimized in the background. So even if they somehow serve me ads I won't see them lmao

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Twitch channel point miner.

    I have it running as a docker container and it just collect drops and points for me.

    Honestly. The only reason I even have that was so I had points to gamble with during Eve Online's alliance tournament. I don't watch anything else on twitch.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I appreciate you mentioning this.

    The point miner specifically was of little use to me, but it had never occurred to me that an application could authenticate and then just pretend to watch things. This lead me to the twitch drop miner, which seems to be exactly what I’m looking for.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

    no way, people will just leave twitch for another streaming platform, kick and youtube exist and many stream on there and if your lucky, your favs never took an exclusivity contract and already multi stream.

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