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by mAritz 2599 days ago
To add to the specific example of twitch, their ads are broken and annoying as hell.

The broken:

- they still don't have the volume of ads under control

- the android app regularly freezes during ad display

- sometimes it disrupts and buffers the stream without then displaying the actual ad

And possibly more, I wouldn't know since all these are enough to make me either not watch twitch or block ads. I disable it once every few months to see if it got better though.

The annoying:

- the same ad every time often (when The Grand Tour started again this year, it was the only ad that ever played for me)

- most ads seem to be trailers for TV shows or movies. Most of those spoil half the story

- if you just want to see what some streamer is doing you have to watch an ad first

Twitch Prime was the only reason I still had Amazon Prime when it removed ads officially. Not anymore.

Twitch turbo was great before Twitch Prime and I had it. But now it's 9,99€ per month which I find outrageous, especially because the streamers will see very little of this money anyways, afaik.