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Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by nlitened »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #263
warent wrote: post #203

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this is a tired old complaint and anybody could say the same about pretty much any job that pays more than their own. Telling blue collar workers you work in tech usually gets a nearly identical reaction to what you just gave. etc etc.

Yeah, and what's wrong with that reaction? I'm supposed to just accept this stuff? The blue collar workers are right too. They should be getting paid a lot more. Certainly not less than streamers. It's not fair and I refuse to accept it. Come to think of it, advertisers seem to be a major cause of these distortions. They distort the value of activities that happen to have an audience. Yet another reason to block ads:…

Why wouldn’t you start a business, and pay blue collar workers what they deserve?

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Post by qersist3nce »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #231
wokwokwok wrote: post #134

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Mmm... well, if you're received what you consider to be toxic interactions on twitter, reddit and even here, but not on 4chan, have you considered that the common factor is perhaps not that all of these platforms are toxic... ...but that your views are considered problematic by quite a lot of people? Perhaps that could be some cause for self reflection before you universally declare the entire platform here hostile a…

> your views are considered problematic by quite a lot of people What I consider problematic is the fact these people will organize massive efforts on Twitter to ruin other people's lives because they posted wrongthink. They make the 4chan raids I've seen look amateurish.

Indeed. There is some downright grotesque "malice" in Twitter cancel-culture efforts. It's really strange they are not self-aware and call 4chan (~last bastion of free speech) toxic.

Yeah, 4chan is toxic and savage, but at least they are honest and humane in a candid kind of way.

The cyber-bullying's of 4chan is trash though...

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Post by AegirLeet »

abdullahkhalids wrote: post #247
AegirLeet wrote: post #63

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There are a number of settings for this: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer

Thanks. Do you know if some of these break major websites if I move away from the default settings?

I've had a small number of sites break when not sending any referer. Can't remember any concrete examples off the top of my head though.

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Post by gizdan »

junon wrote: post #130
meibo wrote: post #53

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Amazon has even more money to throw at studios than Epic, so they can just force themselves into it.

The problem isn't the product. I was going to compete with Steam at one point and we had objectively better systems and a better client. The problem was the critical mass issue - no users, no publishers, neither want to join without the other. Amazon will definitely get publishers but will users join? That's not a given.

Amazon already has customers. If their other products are to go by, they'll just give you an account if you have an Amazon account. Probably combined with free games if you have a prime account and you can imagine that it won't take much to compete, at least not for a company like Amazon.

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Post by o_m »

meibo wrote: post #53
junon wrote: post #51

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It won't work, I don't understand why they're bothering. You can't compete with steam, unless you're trying to hit a niche market.

Amazon has even more money to throw at studios than Epic, so they can just force themselves into it.

So does Microsoft, but Xbox has been in decline since after Xbox 360

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Post by bluedino »

junon wrote: post #51
jsiepkes wrote: post #7

> An unreleased Steam competitor, codenamed Vapor, from Amazon Game Studios The choosing of the name Vapor is probably no accident when the main competitor is Steam. Just like when IBM launched the "Eclipse foundation" which was arguably based on one of Sun's most prized possessions; Java.

It won't work, I don't understand why they're bothering. You can't compete with steam, unless you're trying to hit a niche market.

Amazon would have no problem releasing a 'Fire' console and they have their own distribution and store...

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Post by 0x500x79 »

Buttons840 wrote: post #279
boringg wrote: post #201

This is going to BLOW up the twitch gaming community with all the infighting now that everyone knows how much everyone else makes. Wow.

Number of subs is often known, and the relative size of channels is known. Unless someone's going to be surprised that someone with double the viewers makes double the money, I doubt there will be any surprises.

There are a few outliers in this data. Some streamers with smaller viewer bases are making more because of exclusivity deals, so I imagine there will be a little bit of drama.

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Post by canada_dry »

> Vapor - an unreleased competitor to Steam

Until Steam has a couple major screw ups, potential competitors better have tons of capital to keep throwing at their platform-in-waiting! Amazon does have the $$$, but they also have hungry shareholders that won't wait like they used to. Gamers by-in-large quite like the platform Gabe has built.

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