I’ve read in that thread that there are already ad blockers for twitch too but I haven’t looked up how they work or how twitch inserts the ads.

I am not for ads but what is so difficult about adding them to the video stream. This should make adblockers useless since they can’t differentiate between the video and the ad. I could just imagine it would be difficult to track the view time of the user and this could make the view useless since they can’t prove it to the ad customer. I have no in depth knowledge about hls but as I know it’s an index file with urls to small fragments of the streamed file. The index file could be regenerated with inserted ad parts and randomized times to make blocking specific video segments useless.

This instance bashing is funny because back than when I chose lemmy.ml, I had no fucking clue about Lemmy and it was the developers instance.

Dear US Americans,

please vote for anything that speeds up the downfall of your country.

Sincerely everyone outside of the USA.

Is it the wording or the position ? Because I could imagine feeling equally enraged by this.

So what’s the problem about using third party clients like heroic game launcher ? Or did I understand the first line of your post wrong ?

Yes exactly and some providers also accept crypto.

As I read, they used timing analysis which should be preventable by using an anonymous VPN to connect to tor and streaming something over the VPN connection at the same time. Some of them support multi-hop, like mullvad, which will further complicate the timing analysis because of the aggregated traffic.

What i love about musk is that he is the best bad example. Maybe someday he’ll start a war with some country and then people will start to understand that no single person or group should hold this much power. Because there are also a handful of other people and groups with the same resources who choose to hide in the background.