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

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.

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.

Avoid minimizing or muting Twitch for a better experience.

Avoid enshittifying Twitch for a better experience.

Drink verification can.

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.

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.

Solution: stop using Twitch.

I already saw this Black Mirror episode

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)

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

gets arrested for using ad-blocking technologies

Like, die in a fire Twitch! That's some unhinged behavior which made me delete my account, and I left some pointed feedback. Not that they'll care, but, fuck those fuckers!

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

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 :)

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

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

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.

wow, what an awful idea