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On October 11 2013 20:32 JonIrenicus wrote:Show nested quote +On October 11 2013 20:19 maartendq wrote:On October 11 2013 19:42 Passion wrote: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... 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. 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 
I find any kind of ad banner obtrusive. I come here for information, not for shopping.
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Canada11384 Posts
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.
Yes. This is very stupid. It terrified me the first time the ad popped up because I was testing my stream and it had been rather quiet in the past. Got blasted by an ad and I couldn't figure out why I was getting ads until I realized that every time I clicked on my own channel to pull up and detach the chat, they'd play an ad. Very irritating.
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Solution is fairly simple. If you still want to support the streamer but don't want ads then just get chrome and go to the stream. Turn the volume almost to mute but not quite mute (Some ads override the sound occasionally if you mute it) and set the quality to low. Then just watch the stream in firefox with adblock on. As far as I know they should still get credit for you viewing the ad. I've been doing this on snipealot's stream for awhile now 
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lol who doesnt install ad block nowadays? letting them earn $$ and making ourselves suffer doesnt sound a good deal to a viewer like me.
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Buy TL+ and feel entitled to watch e-sports without ads. That's how I do it. You can also do the twitch thing to remove ads.
At some point you have to draw a line when being a honest person fucks with your ability to enjoy a short life. At some point you'll die and you'll have literally spent a few days of your life having watched ads, most of which are duplicates, not to mention the fact that you're not the target for a majority of them anyway.
Like they say, time is money. If you prefer spending money instead of wasting your time and your enjoyment of streams, you get the best of both worlds. You maintain your integrity by paying, and you don't waste your time. Ads are truly getting out of control. Not so long ago, I was listening to the radio and I was appalled by how many ads they were - and shortly after that, I watched a stream on a PC which didn't have adblock. They're bombarding us with ads, it's invasive and borders on disrespectful.
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I use adblock, primarily because of the 30s starting ads - sometimes my internet can be a bit flaky, and I need to reload a stream regularly. Not going to sit thru ads all that time.
I also like to have a few streams open (especially when tournament with some downtime are on), but after one of those REALLY LOUD ad in some muted stream, adblock was swiftly installed.
I really do not mind the ads that e.g. Grubby plays on his stream, where he shows the video to the streamers - that is perfectly ok, as it chimes in a bit more with what he's doing.
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Netherlands45349 Posts
There is this fucking Dubai air flight ad that won't go away, it just stays there and you have to refresh the stream(thus triggering another ad) in order to watch the strema.
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As a streamer I hate adblock and can't wait for the day it's gone.
Don't know about random ads, that should never happen. Ads can only be sent out in chunks 30 seconds to 3 minutes. You can hit commercial once every 8 minutes. Most streamers clearly wouldn't do this and would only do it between games.
Highly recommend subscribing instead if you dislike ads.
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Starting ads are the worst (and the reason why I installed adblock).
Start tournament stream 1: Ad. 2 teams/players play which I dont care about.
Tournament stream 2: Ad. "We're back in 30min!".
Player stream 1: Ad. Plays a game which isnt listed / I dont care about. Or does some Q&A shit.
Player stream 2: Ad. "Getting food, brb in 20min!"
Ok, let's go with tournament stream 1. Ad. Big fight is about to happen. Internet hiccup. Ad. Missed the fight.
I have no problems with ads during downtime (searching for a game, breaks, when the streamer takes a piss, ...). But those starting ads.... As long as they stay - so does adblock.
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On October 14 2013 19:17 SK.Testie wrote:
As a streamer I hate adblock and can't wait for the day it's gone.
Don't know about random ads, that should never happen. Ads can only be sent out in chunks 30 seconds to 3 minutes. You can hit commercial once every 8 minutes. Most streamers clearly wouldn't do this and would only do it between games.
Highly recommend subscribing instead if you dislike ads.
Well... Sometime i just to watch ONE game of a tournament and doesn't feel to subscribe to 20$ for one game.
But i don't have adblocks. The thing is in France for exemple IEM, i had sometimes ads that i let play (because support etc...) then i'm like : "This ad is really long..." i watch the timer : "30MINUTES !!!!!" WTF ?
I don't think i'll install adblock because i'm lazy but there is really something odd sometimes with commercial. But Youtube's commercials are really wierder. I mentionned earlier that watching MLG youtube channel with 3ad in a video (6pools with 3ads is... annoying). And i had stuff like : "Go on holliday with our hostess in this luxury hotel" and i'm like... what the fuck is this ? Women in G string and... this girl is a porn actresss... so basicly a scam ad...
It never happened on twitch, but ads that have something like 10minutes are not that rare
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For some reason, my browser/streams crash whenever I try to watch streams without ad block. :/ So... I turn on ad block.
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I have declared war against AD TERROR ever since MLG started it.
More than a single AD or two on you page, guess what BLOCK.
Annoying video ADs? BLOCK or leave - I have never returned to MLG ever since, I advise everyone to just find another source of enjoyment.
They will learn only if we join and fight together against thist AD TERROR.
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WCS Season 3 Finals Day 1 stream, my adblock already block 500 various ads, script and other joyous things, sad that they are making adblock mandatory for most of us that don't want to spend most of our internet time in front of ads.
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On October 14 2013 19:17 SK.Testie wrote:
As a streamer I hate adblock and can't wait for the day it's gone.
Don't know about random ads, that should never happen. Ads can only be sent out in chunks 30 seconds to 3 minutes. You can hit commercial once every 8 minutes. Most streamers clearly wouldn't do this and would only do it between games.
Highly recommend subscribing instead if you dislike ads.
Adblock will never cease to exist. You better hope for better ads, so that people aren't forced to use adblock in order to save their sanity.
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I will always use adblock if possible. I hate ads, and if you can't run your stream/business/whatever without compensating for that fact, you need to improve your strategy.
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On October 11 2013 06:31 Sn0_Man wrote:
If you subscribe then you don't need to use adblock (on that stream).
Streamers would make wildly more money if everybody subscribed over just watching ads, however I'm guessing that many streamers make more from ads than from subscriptions currently (since they might average 3000 viewers but only have 50 subscribers).
That is not entirely true, it all depends on at what time the broadcaster got his sub button, if its a newer partner you will still get ads when you subscribe, its only the older partners that have no ads when you sub.
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