Yep. Greedy broadcasters ruining it for everyone. Guess what, this is the internet: We have access to anti-rape devices if you don't take your dick out every once in a while.

Yergidy

United States2107 Posts

October 11 2013 07:51 GMT

#23

I normally pause adblock when i get to a stream i like.

MoonfireSpam

United Kingdom1153 Posts

October 11 2013 08:10 GMT

#24

Did the same when it started playing super loud ads that couldn't be muted.

peacenl

550 Posts

October 11 2013 09:28 GMT

#25

I've heard that some people are currently working on a new ad delivery type that is embedded into the stream (which is much more difficult to block), because the problem now is that they can't match ads to users, because they would have to create multiple streams with each their own ad.

JonIrenicus

Italy602 Posts

October 11 2013 10:27 GMT

#26

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maartendq

Belgium3115 Posts

October 11 2013 10:29 GMT

#27

Been using adblock for years now, no way I'm disabling it. The internet is a much nicer place without ads begging for your attention all the time.

Passion

Netherlands1486 Posts

October 11 2013 10:42 GMT

#28

On October 11 2013 19:29 maartendq wrote:
Been using adblock for years now, no way I'm disabling it. The internet is a much nicer place without ads begging for your attention all the time.

Yes, it's way cheaper to steal...

JonIrenicus

Italy602 Posts

October 11 2013 10:46 GMT

#29

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maartendq

Belgium3115 Posts

October 11 2013 11:19 GMT

#30

On October 11 2013 19:42 Passion wrote:

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Yes, it's way cheaper to steal...

How is it stealing? Seriously, there's nothing more annoying than being spammed with ads for products you are not in the least bit interested in. Sorry tl.net, I am not interested in dating sites for men seeking Asian beauties. Sorry MLG, I couldn't care less about Mountain Dew, a beverage that isn't sold in Belgium.

The amount of advertisments that get thrown at you through the web, email and even normal mail is ridiculous nowadays.

JonIrenicus

Italy602 Posts

October 11 2013 11:32 GMT

#31

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bluQ

Germany1724 Posts

October 11 2013 12:48 GMT

#32

On October 11 2013 19:46 JonIrenicus wrote:

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it's not stealing. Just knowing that you have given enough in the past to sustain them for at least other 30 years.

Adblock is born because ads were abused. Everyone deserves what he gets.

And the marketing industry complains about it because they are burning way more money than any shitty commercial in whatever media could generate. Welp ... too bad, for them ... I guess ...

The concept of advertisment got abused, raped and mutated into a sad thing that is so monstrous it screams to be killed to put out of its misery.

On October 11 2013 20:32 JonIrenicus wrote:

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I don't fully agree with you. When banners are noninvasive, you can disable adblock if you wish (especially for TL!). But when things get obnoxious I would be the first to activate adblock

But ... that contradicts advertisment. When you don't recognize the ad why even put it there? Oh right, because some misterious 3rd party pays the site-owner. But did you ever asked yourself where that money comes from?
From sites, maybe ... like Teamliquid?! which pay a 3rd party to be registered in an ad-rotation to generate more presence and by that viewers of your site right? And that makes you moar moneyz because you have banner there for which you get paid! What a wonderful world isn't it?
(And people wonder why banks/finances is so lucrative ...)

s.a.y

Croatia3840 Posts

October 11 2013 13:18 GMT

#33

A similar thing happened to me one week ago, i was watching WCS NA before sleep, put on full screen, waited for the first commercial, made it play out until the end (2 minutes) and got to bed. Two minutes later ad loaded, it was 30 minutes long. I could not believe it.

So, it was on again. Even Elly, the guilt tripping elephant, can't make me put it off.

teddyoojo

Germany22369 Posts

October 11 2013 13:27 GMT

#34

i started blocking twitch ads solely for the reason they made me watch an ad everytime i open a new stream, which i did alot and i couldnt be arsed waiting 30 seconds every time when i was checking out a stream to see if something good was happening on it

HornyHerring

Papua New Guinea1059 Posts

October 11 2013 14:21 GMT

#35

I don't give a fuck I just installed adblock as soon as I found out about it, never to come back. Stopped watching TV because of commercials, not gonna infest my computer expierience with that shit.

BisuDagger

Bisutopia19231 Posts

October 11 2013 14:56 GMT

#36

The worst part is that you get ads on your own channel. So if you don't subscribe to yourself or get turbo, you get ads everytime you open your stream in a cast.

FFW_Rude

France10201 Posts

October 11 2013 15:09 GMT

#37

It's just painfull.. the worst is watching MLG youtube's channel. I wanted to watch the last MLG (i know i'm late). 4adds by videos... Wtf... And i got some WEIRD commercial on that channel.

The worst thing with twitch add is that it's ALWAYS the same. So you have sometime to watch the same commercial 4 or 5 times....

Kevin_Sorbo

Canada3217 Posts

October 11 2013 15:16 GMT

#38

On October 11 2013 23:56 BisuDagger wrote:
The worst part is that you get ads on your own channel. So if you don't subscribe to yourself or get turbo, you get ads everytime you open your stream in a cast.

keep refreshing your stream.

Make it rain :D

guN-viCe

United States687 Posts

October 11 2013 15:18 GMT

#39

Yea.. I used to pull my hair out when faced with the issues OP has.. then I finally installed adblock... OMFG!

Rainbow Cuddles

United States486 Posts

October 11 2013 17:30 GMT

#40

I started using AdBlock when i missed the final fight in a major tournament Finals & I have no shame for doing so. If the same thing happened during a main stream sporting event there would be major backlash. It shouldn't be acceptable on Twitch either.