New member here. (Hope to get to know y’all soon)
I’ve tried adblock, adblock plus, ublock origin, adblocker ultimate, etc. but no luck with the new twitch ad. I suppose to I could pay for twitch turbo since I watch twitch streams a lot…but I ain’t no Bill Gates! Any suggestions?
Thx.
-Goose
I have a Raspberry Pi set up with Raspbian and PiHole. Point your router to it for DNS services and the ads significantly decrees.
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It is insane overkill but uMatrix will do it. And most don’t understand the point of umatrix and don’t want to do the set up so hate it and think it is stupid. up to you, it does take time to get it working properly.
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ooo this looks tedious. will try this hehe.
Amazing username btw
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uMatrix and NoScritp user here.
What ad? I’m not seeing any ads on Twitch.
My uMatrix overview only shows that it’s blocking scorecardresearch.com which doesn’t sound like an advertising agency, so I think the ads are somewhere in the (long) list of blocked domains on NoScript
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Interesting… I didn’t get any ads either until about a month ago but then these inevitable ads began to appear in the beginning of the stream. I read somewhere that twitch is rolling out these new ads that are as if a part of the video. (like facebook did with their ads looking like regular posts) What’s funny is that my “streaming PC” is playing ads but my desktop doesn’t so maybe it’s still in its beta phase… trying out umatrix. I think it will work out!
Your using a free service, so watch the ads that fund it. If you go twitch turbo you don’t get ads, so if you want the twitch experience without them there is a ligit way to do it. I think its totally uncool to steal a service you can have for free without the loss of privacy.
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You’ll quickly change your mind once you get infected by a malicious ad because some a-hole content provider couldn’t be bothered to take 5 minutes to vet his ads properly. For that reason alone I will NEVER turn off adblock. I don’t feel guilty about it either, when I like the content I’ll find another way to support the creator.
Again, if your twitch turbo you don’t get ads, so if your actually blocking any then you have proved you are not actually willing to support the service who’s ads you block.
Also in all my years of using a PC I have never been infected by malware from an advert, permission systems exist for a reason and if displayed content on a website is able to change things on your PC without your clicking allow, your set up wrong, and adblock isn’t the right solution. I have no issues using software to block scripts running or block tracking, but blocking display of content thats paying to support your experience is beyond the line for me.
There are plenty of examples of malicious sites that exploit using JS or other means. Does not mean that a users setup is wrong, there are some instances where a fully updated machine with an antivirus gets hijacked by simply visiting a website; because it uses a zero-day.
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I agree in theory, but those sorts of attacks aren’t limited to adverts, visiting a website itself has the same risks, both when the page owner is the villain and when the page owner is a victim thats been used to spread it. Thus your not closing the risk envelope all that much disabling viewing of ads vs just blocking them running scripts, the actual image being rarely the problem.
If ads were like back in the day, where webmaster’s respected their users i would gladly let the ads be.
Now it’s another story, ads that track,popup & fill the entire screen etc. etc. The user has to draw the line at some point, not doing so resulted in this shithole of a internet it is now. (When untweaked)
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