TwitchAdSolutions – Blocking Twitch Ads

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.

It&#x27;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&#x27;t have enough real ad sales to fill the ad breaks.<p>There was a months-long period where 95% of the ads I saw were one of two different Audible ads, endlessly repeating, and those were a case of Amazon buying ads from itself since apparently nobody else was buying.

Why don&#x27;t people just pay the $10&#x2F;month if you consume enough for ads to annoy you?<p>I really don&#x27;t get the extreme amount of effort people put into adblocking for services that have a paid alternative. People have this expectation of all these internet services being free which is wild to me. It costs an enormous amount of bandwidth to run Twitch.<p>It is still not profitable because it&#x27;s such a hard business model to run and yet people think they shouldn&#x27;t have to pay anything for it, even when they use the service for dozens to hundreds of hours a month.

The vaft script with Ublock Origin works for me really well<p>There is Twitch Turbo but it&#x27;s 3x more expensive than Youtube Premium and doesn&#x27;t really have any special benefits. But hey Bezos might need a new yacht so guess the price is justified.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;turbo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;turbo</a>

Haven&#x27;t watched much twitch in the last 5-10 years, but Streamlink [0] still seems active, and was a really nice experience (before wide adoption of HTML5 video players) as a CLI and standalone media player enthusiast.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;streamlink&#x2F;streamlink">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;streamlink&#x2F;streamlink</a>

The annoyingness to relevance ratio of twitch ads might be the best of any video platform. I find about one in five interesting. By contrast, I can&#x27;t recall a single time YouTube has shown me anything interesting, relevant, or useful (lucky if it&#x27;s not a downright scam), despite probably having seen ~100x more ads on YouTube than on Twitch.<p>I also appreciate that Twitch still displays the stream while ads play.

These solutions are not perfect and typically stop working after a certain time because they patch it&#x2F;unintentionally break it.<p>The only reliable solution I found is to VPN to some non-western country where they typically don&#x27;t have advertisers. Of course, this brings a load of other issues :`).

Putting this on Microsoft GitHub is bound to get this project booted from the platform. Will we learn our lesson this time?

Regular old ublock works for replays on twitch since they cant just override the feed like they do on the streams. I just watch vods now.

Who has an actual solution for monetizing a &quot;free&quot; video platform?

Could anyone have suggest for adblocking for Facebook and Twitter?

There&#x27;s also Revanced Twitch on Android which has no ads.

I&#x27;ve been streaming for about 10 years on twitch. Not a huge personality, but I am a partner&#x2F;affiliate and it&#x27;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&#x27;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&#x27;t encourage it, because I think my day job makes me way more than most of my viewers make).<p>I&#x27;ve been looking for another platform, considered youtube but it has much of the same issues. Maybe I&#x27;ll go to tiktok.