[woumn]

Yea, most of my browser time spent during free time is strictly on Twitch/Youtube/Netflix. Until these see improvements, then I won't make the switch.

[tostr]

I only use firefox (for privacy reasons). But the macbook-burning-a-hole-in-my-pants behaviour that firefox creates on these sites has led me to using mpv with youtube-dl to watch most of youtube and all of twitch. If you have both installed you can just do a 'mpv https://www.twitch.tv/username' and it will work quite nicely. You might need to set up mpv to get the best quality, I think putting 'ytdl-format=bestvideo+bestaudio/best' in ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf is sufficient. HTH.

[Royalaid]

I am also in this camp and want to say that twitch especially is just horrible for performance

[woumn]

Which is so surprising to me because it's using the HTML5 video player and toggling around with hardware acceleration does nothing to fix the issue. Perhaps it's the integrated chat + any of the add ones that Twitch has written for the videos?

[kup0]

I have noticed the pop-out player seems far more efficient, which leads me to think the chat and other things going on around the video might be the culprit

[Klover]

Unrelated, but what do people do on twitch? I worry about getting out of touch with my children.

[1011_1101]

In addition to FreeFulls comment, there are also talkshows/(video)podcasts. It's basically the main broadcasting platform for gamers and tech people.

[FreeFull]

Twitch is mostly people streaming video of themselves playing games, but there are also some programmers that stream as they write software.