[jron]

I frequently kept a twitch pop-out in the corner of my screen throughout the day. When uBlock stopped working, I almost immediately stopped using the site. Video interruptions are pretty awful for live content where channel switching is a regular occurrence.

[prox]

If you are really interested then Twitch Turbo disables ads for about 10 a month,

[ls612]

If you are really interested and also don’t want to spend money there are Tampermonkey scripts which will solve twitch ads too.

[rchaud]

You wouldn't steal an AWS compute credit.... /s

[pugworthy]

That's why you subscribe to the channel you like - or use Twitch Prime if you have Prime.

[jron]

That doesn't work when you channel hop on a regular basis.

[ihuman]

Twitch still has Nitro, which removes ads for all channels

[belltaco]

Nitro is Discord, Twitch has Turbo.

[symlinkk]

Sounds like a win for Twitch - you were costing them money and not giving anything back

[anonymousab]

They may have been paying for subscriptions, bit rewards/redemptions, prime, etc. Ads are only one source of Twitch's revenue.

Twitch started showing a purple "disable your ad blocker" screen when a block of ads failed to run. I think they probably would have made a lot more money and reduced a lot of churn by simply advertising Turbo instead, which many users don't even know is an option.

[stevenwliao]

Twitch subs remove ads for subscribed channels, so OP doesn't buy subs.

Which is the more likely scenario?

1. OP buys bits and throws them at their favorite streamers despite not being willing to pay for subscriptions.

2. OP pays nothing for Twitch and doesn't watch a single ad.

[jron]

They lost about $20-40 a month on me alone. There are far more channels than a single person could possibly subscribe to...