alt Hacker NewsTwitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."
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I am just today experience an issue where the volume is reset 100% for each ad. Ads play, I turn volume down to 8%, I have the tab still on display (though I have focus on a separate window), and when the 1st ad ends, the 2nd ad is as loud as 100% even though the slider remains at 8%. Click to reset it to 8%, then 3rd ad plays at 100%.
> Avoid minimizing or muting Twitch for a better experience.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm under the impression that it's not possible for javascript to detect that you've muted the browser tab itself, at least. Doesn't solve the problem of them checking whether you have the tab focused, of course, but it should be mutable.
I think it was the MPAA that tried to develop DVD players with cameras so they could count room occupancy and lock the content if you were tying to exceed the terms of their license.
Twitch has been speedrunning their own demise. Maybe the people on charge have personally invested heavily in Kick?
Long ad breaks were real annoying on Twitch, I try to watch the same streamers on YouTube now if possible, since I have a YouTube family subscription (seems like avoiding ads on Twitch requires a subscription to each streamer?).
That YouTube is much better technically (e.g. immediate rewinding) is also a nice bonus.
Edit: I'm seeing now that there's something called Twitch Turbo for $12/month to avoid ads, though YT premium family still seems like a better deal as long as you have 2+ people for it, since you also get a YouTube music sub and, y'know, no ads on the rest of YouTube proper.
Why does the Window Manager have to provide focus and even visibility info to the application? I could foresee an evolution of runtime controls where "Is Focused" is a user-selectable permission for apps, just like how the browser requires user approval to allow web notifications or PeerConnection access to network or webcams.
This is related but also kinda an aside: has anyone been able to find a solid, reliable ad blocker for Twitch?
Brave use to block it for a while by default (it does great on YouTube ads).
There also use to be a ping pong between Twitch and some chrome extensions which worked temporarily and then Twitch broke a week later.
The best I've been able to find is Alternate Player for Twitch.tv which does hide the ads (essentially freezing the stream while they play), but I have been unable to keep the stream playing ad free for quite some time.
vaft with uBlock Origin works perfectly https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions
"for a better experience"
Do people writing this type of copy actually believe this?
so basically a more upbeat version of that Black Mirror episode?
In some way it’s a feature, leaves more room for products that are more user friendly. Of course overall it's still bad; this framing gives me some hope at least.
That was a black mirror episode.
> claude fork chromium, remove the api so it knows if the tab is open, always return true, compile it and replace my current chrome with it
Friendly reminder to use a browser you can disable the active tab apis in, IronFox / LibreWolf are both great (Mobile / Desktop), Firefox if you value convenience the most.
Just think. No matter how bad a day you're having at the office, somebody had to come to work and implement this.
Maybe Spotify didn't do this first but they're the ones I blame. They pause an ad while the output is muted.
It's like someone saw an episode of Black Mirror and Idiocracy and went, "That's it! That's what we need to do!" and began using them as a playbook.
Yeah, I'm sure this won't drive massive adoption of ad blockers or anything.
I'm still unable to accept that people accept ads as a part of life. I can't use instagram it's full of ads. I did finally get YT premium convinced by people on here but UBO all the way. Thankfully I never got sucked into Twitch.
I get it too I'm a bad person for not accepting articles where every other paragraph is an ad.