Twitch continues to deteriorate as a platform because what do you mean I can’t TAB OUT TO MY SECOND MONITOR DURING THE AD BREAK
I NEED TO FOCUS THE TAB AND THE WINDOW FOR THE AD TO PLAY???
Joke’s on them, my computer doesn’t even know whether it’s muted or not.
If it is publicly-traded, it will be enshittified. This is an ironclad, inviolable law.
If it is publicly-traded, it will be enshittified.
Well, thank goodness Elon Musk took Twitter private, amirite?
Since it’s private, Elon could be content with a steady (adjusted for inflation) annual profit, which would allow him to make decisions that are good for the long-term health of the company.
He just sucks.
If it were public, he wouldn’t even have the option to not suck.
I feel like what we’re witnessing is just the end of meaningful innovation in the IT field, so now comes the meaningless innovation.
I don’t care about any platform enough to be abused by it.
Please drink verification can.
“Avoid minimizing or muting for a better experience” Wow, this is beyond nuts.
If i was a Twitch user, i’d dump this right now.
“for a better experience” lmao
i hope the IT stock market crashes so hard
The phrase “For a better experience” activates me like a sleeper cell to be highly alert to whatever product it came from and assume it’s trying to screw me out of my money, attention, privacy, or all three.
i hope the IT stock market crashes so hard
This ^
The best thing I ever installed was UBLOCK ORIGIN,the second best thing was Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Privacy Badger. I have not seen or been interupted by an AD in a decade
It’s almost like make eye contact while watching the AD. Lol what a dystopia.
The more the internet progresses the more I feel like text only browsers are the way to go
I tend to agree. We’ve seen a movement back to -
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more insidious advertising practices. They render the Internet useless in the same ways that incessant pop ups did in the early 2000s.
Reminder that Sony has patented technology to force viewers into saying a certain phrase in order to continue past an advertisement. Sure, it sounds dystopian, but just look at how excited the little consumer is to enthusiastically shout the name of one of his favorite corporations!
Some patents are a crime against humanity.
Fingers crossed this is a patent intended to prevent others from ever stooping to such evil, but it’s not like Sony has been clean when it comes to this kind of shit.
Mentioning this without including the verification can story should be illegal
Oh no. Are you telling me that only Sony products will have this feature? Damn, sucks. Now what will I do?
Pay attention, because there will be a test.
If it would allow you to end the commercial early, it would kind of be genius. “Watch this 2 minute ad or say ‘I love McDonald’s’ to immediately continue watching” is something that definitely would work. It would get these phrases or slogans ingrained while providing a better viewing experience.
Don’t get me wrong, I would hate it as much as
anyoneany other lemmy user. However from a marketing perspective it’s pretty solid while a significant percentage of the viewership would not only participate, but laud it as a good solution to skip the forced commercials.It sounds like fun.
Then the next wave is that the feature length advert will play. You can see the shortened version by shouting I LOVE MCDONALDS. Or you can skip entirely by showing the Camera the New McFood Deluxe and eating it.
These motherfuckers do not know the meaning of the words “dystopian hellscape”. There is no such thing as too much, too far, too invasive, too insidious. There is only “so what’s next for our marketing department?”
Came out in 2011. Very prescient.
Damn. Where did that 15 years go? 😭
Nowhere. They’re right where they were. It’s just that you have moved on.
“After this Pepsi ad, go buy a can and scan the barcode to continue watching the show”
Don’t worry, you’ll only be asked to sing your favorite Pepsi ad jingle. 20s if you can do it without mistakes and 90s otherwise.
Oh, and your audio+video recording will be uploaded to their servers for validation and they can do whatever they want with it.
Soon enough social apps will use your selfie cam to track your eyes. Ads will only play when your eyes are engaged and pause if you’re not looking at the screen. Oh boy.
Same with TVs, the built in camera will see who’s watching, and Netflix, etc, will stop streaming when it sees 5 people watching when your account is only set for 4. Either one person leaves the room or you upgrade to continue watching.
Samsung introduced this feature in the Galaxy S4 way back in like 2012 or so. Thankfully it must be stuck in patent hell so nobody gets it now. Good job everyone, we used the stones to destroy the stones.
Please drink verification can, etc. etc.
It looked like Xbox One was threatening that with the Kinect needing to be connected and being able to sign in with your face. If someone was there who hadn’t paid full price for the game on their own account theyre shit out of luck.
That’s crazy that twitch is now just as horrible as youtube, netflix, etc. Ad’s are absolutely destroying everything. I do my best to mute and avoid looking at all ads and it seems they are getting wise to that tactic as well. Horrible, horrible companies.
Nothing makes me want to buy their product less than intrusive ads.
I find it helps to raise your hand in front of the screen to block the ads when they start playing. It’s like a middle finger to the advertisement companies.
Twitch is a SOCIAL website, you chat with the streamer and they chat back. All these ads do is interrupt the conversation and it’s SICK to me. It ruins the entire experience. I don’t mind the pop up small ads, but the full screen ads with sound just trashed the entire conversation. Always seems to happen when I ask a streamer a question then BAM 6 full screen ads when the streamer starts to answer me. No, I’m not paying for turbo or a sub, I’m f*ing broke right now.
Genuine social connection is not possible on corporate mediated platforms friend, a simulation thereof is bait in their trap and parasocial relationships are manufactured to slip their messaging past your filters. I implore you to go outside, or at least start building connection with strangers in niches like this vs would-be celebrities in what is essentially a slaughterhouse for processing lonely dudes
I avoid big channels, anything more then 20 people or so and I go to a smaller channel.
I made good friends over the years on twitch.
Also the internet makes money mostly with ads, which is a way to manipulate people’s opinions on things.
Twitch is more of a parasocial website in most cases though, unless you’re watching exceptionally small streamers
You are correct, it’s absolutely horrendous. I’m not even broke but I don’t want to give money to Bezos so I just don’t watch twitch anymore.
