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YouTube is experimenting with server-side ads
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The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
It was about time, was always strange that Twitch did it first, and just like over there I'm hopeful some clever people will still make scripts capable of blocking ads.
there's scripts to block twitch ads?
and nobody told me???
Mostly just hide video and mute audio until it's over. Alternate player for twitch is the name of the extension.
https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions
The TTV LOL pro app works but it can be spotty sometimes.
TTV LOL pro is ran on public proxies, if u run the proxies yourself then you will have 0 issues.
I use video swap new from the GitHub the other commenter posted.