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Tip: You can bypass Twitch ads on Firefox thanks to Picture-in-Picture (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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Happened to discover this a while ago.

If an ad starts playing in the main window that moves the livestream to a small window in the top right corner, do the following:

  1. Mute the main stream.
  2. Hover your mouse over to the tiny window and click the PiP button.
  3. Unmute the PiP stream

You can now continue to watch the livestream uninterrupted. Once the ad concludes, the PiP pop-up window automatically closes and the main stream continues.

I usually enlarge the PiP window and move it over the ad to cover it.

This is basically a manual method of what add-ons like Alternate Player for Twitch.tv do.

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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

You can also use unlock origin to skip those too.

[-] nosnahc@jlai.lu 27 points 1 year ago

Ublock Origin*

[-] detalferous@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

uBlock origin does not block twitch ads, in my experience

[-] Blxter@lemmy.zip -5 points 1 year ago

Same only solution I have found is a VPN called windscribe I pay for it as it's my VPN of choice right now and increadblt cheap but anyways it has a browser ad on that you can turn on then put in a region (I forgot what one) because apparently twitch can not show ads there. It has worked for me I don't watch much twitch anymore but when I do it seems to work.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I read somewhere that if you connect to Serbia, Twitch won't show ads

I haven't confirmed it because I very rarely watch Twitch either, and when I do it's my friends' channels and nothing with ads

[-] detalferous@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Great tip! Thanks!

[-] Blxter@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

yea Yea not sure why I got downvotes but works for me. I had to Google the locations that don't show ads it was how I got the idea.

[-] smollittlefrog@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago

Your comment kinda reads like an ad.

[-] Blxter@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I do kinda see that lol. I just meant that there are free alternatives by free Vpns.

[-] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a regional thing. From time to time, ublock origin fails but it'll work again after the filter lists are updated. Even if it works, the stream will stop and you have to reload the page.

[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

To me Twitch continues to display ads despite hard Firefox settings, UBlock Origin, ClearURL, Privacy Badger and Decentraleyes

[-] strawberry@artemis.camp 2 points 1 year ago

there's some custom rules u need in uBo for twitch iirc

[-] dill@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

Whattttt!? I mean I guess that makes sense. I will have to try this. Usually I watch twitch via Chromecast on my tv. For whatever reason no ads play when doing that.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a bug, I hope it never gets fixed. :)

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