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Re:Ad block and you don't stop by artvark11 on Monday November 23, 2020 @01:41PM (#25190038)
Only if you use their website. It's invested with ads and tracking. You can use a desktop client to play the stream in a native player and irc for the chat.

https://streamlink.github.io/streamlink-twitch-gui/

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Re:Ad block and you don't stop by regecks on Monday November 23, 2020 @05:06PM (#25192514)
Not really. Twitch has been sending in-m3u8-playlist ad segments to clients like Streamlink for long a while now.

Streamlink's workaround is to avoid playing pre-roll ads by sniffing for SCTE35 segments in the playlist.

However, you can't just seamlessly skip ads. Twitch's servers won't send you the next segments of the actual stream until an appropriate amount of time has passed. What's an adblocker to do in that case? Show a blank screen?

If Twitch wanted to squash adblocking entirely, they could so easily do it.

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Re:Ad block and you don't stop by gruez on Monday November 23, 2020 @05:23PM (#25192661)
>Show a blank screen?

yes? Isn't that what people did back then? eg. live sporting event, when the ads came on you went to go get snacks or the toilet. It's not ideal but it's still better than having commercial messages blasted into your consciousness.

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Re:Ad block and you don't stop by tartoran on Monday November 23, 2020 @06:36PM (#25193270)
Yep. That would be perfect time to reflect if you want to continue watching whatever you were watching, mediate or take a snack break or take the boiling water off the stove and throw some tea leaves in it or you name it.
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