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by bdlowery 1130 days ago
It’s not an arms race. Twitch has already figured it out. It’s absolutely impossible to use any sort of adblocker on twitch. It’s so bad that the best solution to “block ads” on twitch is to use a proxy to a country that isn’t serving ads.

Unless twitch has some crazy way of inserting ads into the video stream, YouTube will be able to do exactly what twitch has done.
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xurukefi 1130 days ago
> It’s absolutely impossible to use any sort of adblocker on twitch.

I have never seen any ads on twitch. I just checked with DevTools and it seems like uBlock Origin simply blocks a script called "v6s.js", that is apparantly responsible for serving ads.

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bdlowery 1126 days ago
idk what to tell you. I have uBlock Origin on and without the proxy I see ads all the time. Either you're not in the US or you're just lying. There's a thread on the uBlock origin website with over 1,000 comments of people saying the same thing.

There's also posts their daily about how ads are not being blocked on twitch anymore.

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