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???
“Drink verification can”.
what is that from? it sounds familiar
4chan greentext
It’s a greentext from 2013 apparently. It can be found on reddit, and I’ve seen it here, but I doubt I could find it.
Turned out to be real easy, I uploaded in another comment.
Pretty sure it’s from Futurama.
It’s from Demolition Man. An 80s sci-fi/action movie.
Oh, right! As everybody knows, 2013 was years before the 1980s decade, and so this is the original source that inspired the movie!
I don’t recall that in demolition man. I just watched it a month ago. I’ll turn it on tonight
as an aside, that’s a great movie.
No its not.
For a better experience?? Actually hilarious.
Yeah their experience, not yours
I hate corpo speak so fucking much.
Similar to “we care about your privacy” cookie popups that try to trick you into allowing them to violate your privacy.
With your agreement, we and our 3753 partners use cookies or similar technologies to store, access, and process your personal data
do you even Cookie-Auto-Delete, bro?
If it is publicly-traded, it will be enshittified. This is an ironclad, inviolable law.
I feel like what we’re witnessing is just the end of meaningful innovation in the IT field, so now comes the meaningless innovation.
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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.
Which is why SpaceX is about to suck once they IPO :(
The original stated plan was no IPO until Mars transits were normal.
Yet another thing Elon lied about. Shocking.
TODAY, on BLACK MIRROR EPISODES in Real LIFE
I kid you not, there’s this BM episode where they train on indoor bikes and sleep in pods and have to watch the ad on the screen lest it screeches at them
FUCK YOU TWITCH 🤗💖
Was an episode of Max Headroom where it was illegal to own an off-switch for your television.
40 years earlier, and still ahead of its time.
It was referenced in every episode, but one episode was about the people who had one.
Every dystopic shit that eventually happens in real life has been featured in a BM episode.
I am starting to suspect that either the authors of BM know something we don’t, or that some people are treating BM as some kind of an instruction manual.
unfortunately, when you get good sci-fi writers who use the medium to examine social tendencies & human psychology, then try to draw out a possible conclusion whilst also having the audience take a step back by introducing a fantastical element… you have a team of people who will predict the future, despite really not wanting to
Tech CEOs watched that series for inspiration for new products. They read 1984 for the same reason.
I don’t care about any platform enough to be abused by it.
Joke’s on them, my computer doesn’t even know whether it’s muted or not.
Them bitches let ya know if you were getting a text. Loved that shit.
I had that exact model. Had a real satisfying click on the knob when you turned it on.
I think everyone had that model at one point.
Nah. But that generation looks similar enough and that design with the hole was pretty common. But seemed like every manufacturer made their own versions or had a specific no name company make the ones they shipped with their machines.
I hated how heavy that knob felt but the click was weirdly satisfying though
Core memory unlocked
20 GOTO 10
(I used to have one of those until 2015, when it broke down. Never ever found a replacement. By that point it was yellow, not white-gray lol)
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!
Mentioning this without including the verification can story should be illegal
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.
Pay attention, because there will be a test.
Oh no. Are you telling me that only Sony products will have this feature? Damn, sucks. Now what will I do?
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?”
LINE MUST GO UP!
Thank you, Pringles
Why the fuck does my browser need to send it the information that its muted or minimized?
Firefox has plugins to spoof specific tabs as always active.
You should link them so more people can find them easily.
I need everyone to look at what you can do with HTML5 “game engines”. You want mouse poisiton? You want to know if the mouse is in on the page or not? Internet speed? Audio card codec?
If a 13 years old using the free version of construct3 can do it, capitalism can do it.
This is why browser games don’t tend to work in Librewolf. Also why I use Librewolf.
Because Browsers are corporate-built garbage which are designed with corporate interests in mind, same reason they choose to send good fingerprinting canvas data instead of sending randomized garbage every new session.
It’s been a standard feature for a very long time I’m kind of surprised they’ve only just started making use of it but this kind of thing.
A lot of sites that play sounds will stop when you tap out of them otherwise they’re just plain sounds in the background and that’s kind of annoying.
And it’s not a bad feature to have for the functionality of some sites. It’s just that as with any feature/rule/etc it can be abused. So a toggle like (according to a comment above) some plugins add is an unfortunate necessity.
I think you can turn it off in settings
there are many ways of detecting minimized/inactive or not. You can do
setIntervalthrottle detection when browsers slow down JS in inactive tabs for performance reasons.Why
Because money
“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.
doesn’t amazon own twitch? It’s no surprise that they’re enshittifying at an alarming rate.
I wish I had an account so I could have the satisfaction of deleting it right now.
Please drink verification can.
Mountain doo for me and you.
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.
“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 ^
Doesn’t say “your”. They probably meant “shareholders’”
I hope jeff bezos grows hair all over his body at an unmaintainable rate
You know what? It doesn’t have to be all over his body. Just the eyeballs.
fair enough
for a better experience
LOL, fuck your brainwashing.
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.
Twitch is more of a parasocial website in most cases though, unless you’re watching exceptionally small streamers
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.
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.
