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Re: TwitchAdSolutions – Blocking Twitch Ads

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Post by JohnMakin »

I've been streaming for about 10 years on twitch. Not a huge personality, but I am a partner/affiliate and it's always hilarious to me despite serving who knows how many hundreds of hours of ads (that my viewers constantly complain about) that I can't really do anything about. and how little I actually get from it is a joke. I also get a pathetic share off of subscriptions and always encourage my viewers to save their money and donate to me off-platform if they so desire (but I don't encourage it, because I think my day job makes me way more than most of my viewers make).

I've been looking for another platform, considered youtube but it has much of the same issues. Maybe I'll go to tiktok.

Re: TwitchAdSolutions – Blocking Twitch Ads

#53

Post by jsheard »

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #48
jsheard wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Around the hundredth time I heard that kid say "Have you heard the one about the immortal lord of dreams?" I was ready to never subscribe to Audible purely out of spite.

I really think this an under-appreciated or perhaps under-researched phenomenon that is becoming more and more prevalent. It isn't just that ads are everywhere at all times (though that is also awful for a buffet of reasons) but it's the same fucking ads, likely because I am being targeted by a set of them that I'm "likely to respond to" which I then prove wrong every single day. But hot shit, I have heard the fuckin…

> But hot shit, I have heard the fucking insipid jingle for Chumba Casino so many goddamn times

Yeah, casinos are probably the worst intersection between irritating ads and having enormous budgets to make sure you see them a million times. Here it's this fucking guy on Twitch all the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3CKkQkON8A

From the YouTube comments you can see the campaign has really captured the heart of the nation, one fan wrote "if everyone involved with this advert, both on and offscreen, was put up against a wall and shot would it be murder? really?"

Re: TwitchAdSolutions – Blocking Twitch Ads

#54

Post by wnevets »

JohnMakin wrote: post #52

I've been streaming for about 10 years on twitch. Not a huge personality, but I am a partner/affiliate and it's always hilarious to me despite serving who knows how many hundreds of hours of ads (that my viewers constantly complain about) that I can't really do anything about. and how little I actually get from it is a joke. I also get a pathetic share off of subscriptions and always encourage my viewers to save thei…

> Maybe I'll go to tiktok.

TikTok is probably the worst one to make money from adverts.

Re: TwitchAdSolutions – Blocking Twitch Ads

#55

Post by internet101010 »

jsheard wrote: post #2

It's incredible how much effort Twitch puts into bypassing adblockers, compared to how little effort they put into actually selling ad space. At any given time they have maybe 2 or 3 different ads in rotation, and they often resort to running ads for other Amazon services because they don't have enough real ad sales to fill the ad breaks. There was a months-long period where 95% of the ads I saw were one of two diffe…

It's incredible how many Twitch viewers don't even know that Twitch Turbo exists, and that Twitch itself has done an terrible job of promoting it.

Twitch is impossible to watch with ads.

Re: TwitchAdSolutions – Blocking Twitch Ads

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Post by JohnMakin »

wnevets wrote: post #54
JohnMakin wrote: post #52

I've been streaming for about 10 years on twitch. Not a huge personality, but I am a partner/affiliate and it's always hilarious to me despite serving who knows how many hundreds of hours of ads (that my viewers constantly complain about) that I can't really do anything about. and how little I actually get from it is a joke. I also get a pathetic share off of subscriptions and always encourage my viewers to save thei…

> Maybe I'll go to tiktok. TikTok is probably the worst one to make money from adverts.

I don't drive income from this other than what I can do to declare writeoffs on my taxes - I just want to provide a better experience for my viewers. It's objectively miserable watching twitch streams without adblockers.

Re: TwitchAdSolutions – Blocking Twitch Ads

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Post by nerdjon »

cooper_ganglia wrote: post #3

I hate how Twitch puts over a minute of pre-roll ads before you can start watching a stream. They should at least wait 60 seconds, I can't imagine how many people have chosen not to catch a new stream because they'd immediately have to sit through over a minute of ads before even getting to any content.

As a viewer I disagree, I would much rather sit and wait 60 seconds in the beginning than to start watching something just for my stream to randomly be stopped for an ad.

Since it's live, it isn't like the video will just pick back up where you were. I realize ads could still play during, but if we could make it only in the beginning (or the streamer could say, I am taking a break and trigger an ad, that would be better.

Re: TwitchAdSolutions – Blocking Twitch Ads

#59

Post by phatfish »

haunter wrote: post #21

The vaft script with Ublock Origin works for me really well There is Twitch Turbo but it's 3x more expensive than Youtube Premium and doesn't really have any special benefits. But hey Bezos might need a new yacht so guess the price is justified. https://www.twitch.tv/turbo

Yup, i rarely have to update the commit link to that script. They seem to focus on taking down extensions that get popular rather than actually changing their obfuscation method.
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